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174 CARNATIONS AND CAVALIERS.

Oh! Ladyes—ye who Lovers have,

(And I can guess full well

Ye are too fair to sigh alone),

List to the tale I tell.

A Ladye and her Lover once,

In a Summer evening-tide,

Within a stately garden walked,

And whispered, side by side.

The Ladye fair and graceful was,

And well-beloved, I ween,

By her true Cavalier; than whom

A braver ne'er was seen.

And in the garden wandered they,

Nor wist which way they went:

They gazed into each other's face

In Love's own blest content.

On paced they through the pleached paths,

Where honey-suckles crept,

And, drooping from the boughs o'erhead,

The pensile streamers, swept