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XLJX.—BLANCHE.
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Blanche sat by her open casement, : Humm...
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Xljx.—Blanche.
XLJX . —BLANCHE .
Blanche Sat By Her Open Casement, : Humm...
Blanche sat by her open casement , : Humming' an air as she spinn'd ;
_.- _.-. Ever and oft the burden came , _, Borne on the summer ' s wind .
" ¦ . ' Twas She had an olden caught ditty from she lips sang long , dead ;
. Lips now attuned to other songs , " To-other songs , " she said .
Round and round her spinning-wheel flew ,, Swiftly the long silken thread
Dropped from her ivory fingers , — " An endless task ! " she said .
The sun swooned away on the mountains _^ Painting the valley in red
, In . orange and purple the vineyards , — '" An endless day ! " she said .
The ; _# ioon and stars they glimmered , As the twilight shadows fled ;
She . leans from her open casement , — ; . ' . " God only is Love ! " she said .
An angel in secret is weaving , A death shroud with mystical thread
, Uniting the half-finished meshes : — * ' God only is Rest ! " lie said .
" _ISTow wipe the tears from thy cheek , Blanche X Believe that thy lover is dead ;
For faithless from thee he has wandered , " — ;¦ " God only is true ! " she said .
'Twas night , and the angel was bending , Over Blanche as she lay on her bed ;
. He whispered , " Her spinning is ended , " . " God only is Life ! " he said .
Sophia May EcKr . Br ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1863, page 326, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071863/page/38/
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