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By the Fireside.

II.

  And by suffering worn and weary,
But beautiful as some fair angel yet,
  Thus lamented Margaret,
  In her cottage lone and dreary:—

  “ He has arrived! arrived at last!
Yet Jane has named him not these three days past;
  Arrived! yet keeps aloof so far!
And knows that of my night he is the star!