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The Apartment of. She is discovered sitting by a table writing, and standing behind her chair, overlooking her as she writes.

That pretty hand, and those fair characters So delicate! they should alone express Words of a sweet and sisterly affection,— Words of the dearer tenderness of love. Have done with cold notes of formality; Let Marg'ret henceforth write such things as those. No, this white hand, this soft, this delicate hand, As delicate as if the early dew Dropp'd from the lily's bell or hawthorn's blossom, A fresh collection of all summer sweetness, Had been its daily unguent, it is mine; Thou'st given it to me; ay, and it shall write To me, to me alone, when I am gone.