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Loose Papers
May 11th 1848
To Aurelia Nissen, in return for her Violet
I ever loved the Violet yet - doubly dear
Are those thy hand has sent me here
And on its pale and withered face
The "lingering hues" of thought; I trace
And a [spell?] of the past its leaves unfold
More dear, to me, this Violet than gems of gold.
For thou has sought it in its woodland dell
And sent it here, that it should tell
All those sweet truths that hidden lie
In the cerulean light of the Violet's eye
Those gems of thought; that in serious hour
Nature has wrtitten on that deep blue flower.
There is someything about it but I never could tell
That it was that made me love it so well
Yet I never could pass it unheeding by
Without thinking of the [volume?] experienced in its eye
And as I've gazed on its beauties the while
I've fancied I saw in it an Angel's smile.
And I've gazed on thy eye without flattery I say
I've seen in its depths the same bright ray
And lofty thoughts are slumbering there
And feelings [love?] pure for earth's "tainted air"
All, all have I seen in thy hazle eye
In the days that're past [in?] the days gone by.
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