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ovely, and gentle, and distressed—These charms might tame the fiercest breast;Harpers have sung, and poets told,That he, in fury uncontrolled,The shaggy monarch of the wood,Before a virgin, fair and good,Hath pacified his savage mood.But passions in the human frameOft put the lion’s rage to shame:And jealousy, by dark intrigue,With sordid avarice in league,Had practised with their bowl and knifeAgainst the mourner’s harmless life.This crime was charged ’gainst those who layPrisoned in Cuthbert’s islet grey.
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