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On Parting with a very Pretty, but very Little Lady - ZaunköniG - 15.07.2007
On Parting with a very Pretty, but very Little Lady
‘T is ever thus. We only meet on earth
That we may know how sad it is to part:
And sad indeed it were, if, in the heart,
There were no store reserved against a dearth,
No calm Elysium for departed Mirth,
Haunted by gentle shadows of past Pleasure:
Where the sweet folly, the light-footed measure,
And graver triftles of the shining hearth
Live in their own dear image. Lady fair,
Thy presence in our little vale has been
A visitation of the Fairy Queen,
Who for brief space reveals her beauty rare,
And shows her tricksy feats to mortal eyes,
Then fades into her viewless Paradise.