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sat alone beside her hearth— For many nights alone; She slept not on the pleasant couch Where fragrant herbs were strewn.

At first she bound her raven hair With feather and with shell; But then she hoped; at length, like night, Around her neck it fell.

They saw her wandering mid the woods, Lone, with the cheerless dawn, And then they said, "Can this be her    We called ‘The Startled Fawn’?"

Her heart was in her large sad eyes, Half sunshine and half shade; And love, as love first springs to life, Of every thing afraid. 