...this "exquisite portrait," the most precious, perhaps, in English poetry of the nineteenth century' : "She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed...lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament. I saw her upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a Woman too ! Her household motions light and free. And steps...

...accompanied by a quotation from William Wordsworth, "Her eyes as stars of twilight fair. Like twilights too her dusky hair. / But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn" (Craftsman [ December i9i5]: np). It is included on Peat's i949 checklist of Chase's known work as...

...girlhood, if such be her happy lot, to quote from Wordsworth: " With all things round about her drawn Prom May-time and the cheerful dawn ; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay." Let her develop onward: " A spirit, yet a woman, top, With household motions light and free, And steps...

...Hampshire, to see what was said about her and found this quote beside the name of Mary Francis Murphy: Her eyes as stars of twilight fair; Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair. What an awesome, spontaneously, serendipitously discovered coincidence! Famous lines and sentiments...