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A PORTRAIT. - ZaunköniG - 28.10.2007 A PORTRAIT. SHE hath lived so silently and loved so much That she is deeply stirred by little things, While pain's long ache and sorrow's sharper stings Scarce move her spirit that eludes their clutch ; But one half-tone of music, or the touch Of some tame bird's eager vibrating wings, Breaks up the sealed fountain's murmurings To storm, or what in others might seem such ; So, when she lifts her serious lids to turn On ours her soft and magical dark eyes, All womanhood seems on her, in disguise ; As on the pale white peacock we discern The pencilled shadows of the radiant dyes And coloured moons that on her sisters burn. |