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16 " SET IN BBILLIANTS."
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IV-—"SET IN BRILLIANTS."
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'Tis usance that, when Princes deign
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God Takes Our Clearest—Ever So ; The Rea...
Yet is He Father and would Mud Thee nearer to Him , heart and mind ;
His chastisements are ever kind . Thy " dies _irse , " dark and drear ,
Shall break away in sunlight clear ; The sun , tho' clouded , still was near .
Thy love so true may meet with scorn , Thy friend may leave thy heart forlorn ,
Thy darling from thy home be borne . Yet Lin 'day of dread
ove , evry , Is shining , simlike , far o _v erhead ; Thou shalt have blessing from thy dead .
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16 " Set In Bbilliants."
16 " SET IN BBILLIANTS . "
Iv-—"Set In Brilliants."
IV- —" SET IN BRILLIANTS . "
'Tis Usance That, When Princes Deign
'Tis usance that , when Princes deign
A mark of special grace , The courtly painter of the reign
Must limn the royal face ; And they receive , that happy race
On whom such favours shine , A portrait , framed in splendid _Ccise ,
And set in brilliants fine . This morn to me a portrait came ,
Which , though no royal gift , Yet stirred my blood to sudden flame ,
With heartbeats strong and swift : Altlio' no splendid case enclosed ,
No glittering brilliants shone , A more than royal face
disclosed—A grace that ' s all its own . A simple carte de visiie , mine ,
"Where , in plain black and white , Limned by an artist all divine
In shadow and in light , Stand forth a face and form so fair
In woman ' s beauteous youth , That , painted , it were flattery rare ,
Sun-traced , 'tis simple truth .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1864, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031864/page/16/
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