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THE
LADY OF THE LAKE.
CANTO FOURTH.
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I.
“ The rose is fairest when ’tis budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears :£
The rose is sweetest wash’d with morning dew,
And love is loveliest when embalm’d in tears.
0 wilding rose, whom fancy thus endears,
I bid your blossoms in my bonnet wave,
Emblem of hope and love through future years! ”
Thus spoke young Norman, heir of Armandave,
What time the sun arose on Yennachar’s broad wave.
II.
Such fond conceit, half said, half sung,
Love prompted to the bridegroom’s tongue.
1 [MS.—“And rapture dearest when obscured bj fears.”]
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