Littell's Living Age/Volume 132/Issue 1710/At the Play
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| ←In a Child's Album | Littell's Living Age by Volume 132, Issue 1710 : At the Play |
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| 1877 |
Dora seated at the play
Weeps to see the hero perish, —
Hero of a Dresden day,
Fit for china nymphs to cherish;
O that Dora's heart would be
Half so soft and warm for me!
When the flaring lights are out
His heroic deeds are over,
Gone his splendid strut and shout,
Gone his raptures of a lover,
While my humdrum heart you'd find
True, though out of sight and mind.
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