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Tii lib golddacerl coat.
15Lit In: looked in vain
For the fiver’s beautiful facc again.
INigllt after night, day after day.
The Frenchman eagerly surgkt, thf:y say,
At church or at ball, or along the slreer.,
F or the girl w ho flung her rose at his te_t.
And she, night after ni^ht and dav after dav,
Was sailing farther and father away
From the window, where her :xissionati;: heart
Had sudden felt love's piercing dart.
For her jealous father'.-; wntehfal oyes
Had noted all in dismayed si: ijiri-
From the street be'ow. -aid taking tlie gauge
Of a wo man's heartj in a ni om erf’s ra^e,
He swore, 1 his old colonial squire,
'That before the daylight should expire.
This daughter of his with her w il and graee.
With her dangerous heart rmd beat liml face,
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Should be on her way to a sure retreat,
Where no rose of hers should fall at the feet.
O f a cursed Frenchman, Ingh or low.
And so, while the Count De Rochenbo,
In his gold-laced coat wore a faded flower.
And waited the giver, hour by hour.
She was sailing a wav in the wild March night,
On the deck of the little sloop “ Delight,
Guarded well, in the darkness there
Tty the watehfibl ryes of a jealous ca-e.
Three weeks later a brig bore down
Into the harbor of Portsmouth town.
Towing a wreck. ’Twas the sloop “■ Delight ’*
Off Hampton Roads. In the -very sight