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I. Lovely Brookland! Peaceful Village,
Through the bitter snow that ev _e ning Came a woman thinly clad ,
With a face so pale , yet gentle , With a look so sad , so sad ;
As if in a trance she wandered Underneath the aged limes ,
To the house where Michael Harman Lived and worked in former times . _„
There she paused , but when she entered The old half-down broken door
, { For the house had long been empty , ) * In a swoon fell on the floor .
Faint and hungry she had journeyed All day long . The moon ' s pale light :
Seemed to watch that helpless woman , Lying there alone that night .
Harry Leigh , by chance , next morning Passed the placeand as the door
, Stood wide open , chanced to look in , And beheld her on the floor .
Though a woman , still how childish Looked her face , her eyes , her hair ,
Harry raised her—O 'twas Amy I Amy faded , yet still fair .
Harry bore her from the cottage To the mill ' twas now his own ;
When her fain , ting fit was over , Still to find the senses flown ;
For she seemed to have forgotten Her past lifeand talked so wild
TakinHfor , her father , Thinking g arry herself still a child , .
Once again she roamed the forest , Once more listened to the song
Of the birds , though people whispered That she'd leave the world ere long ;
For her frame kept getting weaker , Till at last she could not stray
From the house . And then poor Amy Faded slowly day by day .
Still her mem ' ry strangely wandered , ; And she'd sometimes madly rave
English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1864, page 414, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081864/page/54/