The Picture Gallery.
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A royal Princess, true, thou may'st not be,
Tho' linked to royalty thy name;
And yet I willing pause—nobility
Rests not on crown or fame,
Proud "Alice."
Tho' linked to royalty thy name;
And yet I willing pause—nobility
Rests not on crown or fame,
Proud "Alice."
And thus my flower, my lovely English flower,
I hold thee to thy Norman name,
And count it e'en thy best and sweetest dower,
No meeter could'st thou claim—
My "Alice."
I hold thee to thy Norman name,
And count it e'en thy best and sweetest dower,
No meeter could'st thou claim—
My "Alice."
