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THE BALLAD OF THE BRIDES OF QUAIR. 419
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LVin—THE BALLAD OF THE BRIDES OF QUAIR.
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mention the second , thick young volume of " Transactions" shortly to her be published unremitting , which assistance has been during condensed many past , arranged weeks . It and is revised a splendid by
instance of a profound truth which our poets in general are very slow to appreciate : that what enlarges the mind and strengthens the
character We have , adds only also to add to the in special our own power behalf . , that with the promoters in
of this Journal she has from the first been closely associated perlast sonal month friendshi was p from and in her literary and labor that , that a our sketch leading entitled article " The of
. pen , Dressmaker ' s Life , " and a lovely poem " The Stranger's Lair , " in our numbers for last June and Julywere also contributed by her .
, With these few words we commend our readers to a new Poem from her pen , -which , we have thought it an honor to include among
our pages .
B . H . P .
The Ballad Of The Brides Of Quair. 419
THE BALLAD OF THE BRIDES OF QUAIR . 419
Lvin—The Ballad Of The Brides Of Quair.
LVin—THE BALLAD OF THE BRIDES OF QUAIR . By Isa Chaig .
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At U evenfall the silent , in noon hills - looked tide glare forth : Tlie pon many windowed House of Q , uair .
Browsed The peacock the on lawn tlie terrace the timid screamed hare , / ( l ' * ' _] _-. r / ' _& " _^ _A- * i - """
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/ The The po alders ol was sickened still ; around all the air its brim ; from tne streams
/ / Thoug There h eanie nigh no flowed murmur Leithen , Tweed , and , Q , uair . / / And The days men hold to court on their and cam wonted p repair pace ,
/ . Their While part women to nil keep , of tlie good House or ill of , _Quair , ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1859, page 419, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021859/page/59/
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