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AURORA LEIGH.
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He stood a moment with erected brows,
In silence, as a creature might, who gazed:
Stood calm, and fed his blind, majestic eyes
Upon the thought of perfect noon. And when
I saw his soul saw,—‘Jasper first,’ I said,
‘And second, sapphire; third, chalcedony;
The rest in order, . . last, an amethyst.’
THE END.
BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.
