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with the glowing form, and lily brow Beneath a woof of golden tresses! now (As oft before, through years of grief and shame, And love intense as hopeless)—I exclaim “Sancta Maria! canst thou not redress The torments wrought by tyrant loveliness; To thee I’ve paid the honours of a bride , But thy stern kinsmen’s unrelenting pride To me the nuptial presents has denied!