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THE CONVENT.

1 If chance some pensive stranger, hither led,
2 His bosom glowing from majestic views,
3 Temple and tower 'mid the bright landscape's hues,
4 Should ask who sleeps beneath this lowly bed? [Page 15]
5 A maid of sorrow. To the cloistered scene,
6 Unknown and beautiful a mourner came,
7 Seeking with unseen tears to quench the flame
8 Of hapless love: yet was her look serene
9 As the pale moonlight in the midnight aisle;
10 Her voice was gentle and a charm could lend,
11 Like that which spoke of a departed friend;
12 And a meek sadness sat upon her smile!
13 Now, far removed from every earthly ill,
14 Her woes are buried, and her heart is still.

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Bowles, William Lisle, 1762-1850. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. I. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan. Edinburgh: James Nichol, 9 North Bank Street..., 1855, pp. 14-15.  (Page images digitized from a copy held at the University of California Libraries.)

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