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ON ACCIDENTALLY MEETING A LADY NOW NO MORE.

WRITTEN MANY YEARS AFTER THE FOREGOING SONNETS.

1 When last we parted, thou wert young and fair
2 How beautiful let fond remembrance say!
3 Alas! since then old Time has stol'n away
4 Nigh forty years, leaving my temples bare:[Page 25]
5 So hath it perished, like a thing of air,
6 That dream of love and youth: we now are gray;
7 Yet still remembering youth's enchanted way,
8 Though time has changed my look, and blanched my hair,
9 Though I remember one sad hour with pain,
10 And never thought, long as I yet might live,
11 And parted long, to hear that voice again;
12 I can a sad, but cordial greeting, give,
13 And for thy welfare breathe as warm a prayer,
14 Lady, as when I loved thee young and fair!

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Title (in Source Edition): ON ACCIDENTALLY MEETING A LADY NOW NO MORE. WRITTEN MANY YEARS AFTER THE FOREGOING SONNETS.
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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. 24-25.  (Page images digitized from a copy held at the University of California Libraries.)

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