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THE NOBLE STRANGER.

f a n n y 's l e t t e r .
I SA W him, L ucv, only once;
’Twas down the lighted hall;

He moved to music gracefully,
A stranger to ua all—
A stranger with a pale, wliite brow,
And dark and meaning eye.
Which flashed like lightning on my own
Whene'er I passed him by.

Those -soul-lit eves, they haunt inc still;
So passionately deep !
Like those which sometimes beam on us
In visions of our sleep.
S cj a ad, as if some shadowy grief
Had o'er his spirit gone,
Yet brightening whene’er it caught
The answer of my own,

I knew him not, and yet where'er
I turned me from the dance
I saw those dark eyes follow me­
lt could not be by chance,
1 knew him not, and yet Ids torica
Were breathed upon ray ear
So sweetly low and musical,
I could not choose but hear.

lie spoke of disappointed hopes;
Of dreams which faded soon ;
The dew-drops of life's joyous mt>rr%
Which vanished ere its noon.
And then, dear Lucy, how he sighed ■