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Poems (Botta)/Cheney

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New York: G. P. Putnam and Company, page 186

129898Poems (1853) — CheneyAnne Lynch Botta

CHENEY.


The Paint-King, envious of his cunning art,To him the tinted palette would not lend;So has he dipped the pencil in his heart,And with his light and shade its hues still blend.