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THE GREEK GIRL.
Ah! guard them well, those memories!—too soon the heart, around
The crust of luxury's selfishness, the harsh and hard is found;
Then keep the thoughts of earlier days—the guileless and the kind,
When the heart, with its sweet impulses, held empire o'er the mind.
These words, I know, are fanciful; yet who would not but trace
A history of gentle thoughts upon that lovely face!
For, if not all reality, at least, such well may seem,
And, even with our own actual life, what is it but a dream?
