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Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848

Part 2 — ISOLA.

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BY JOHN TOMLIN.

I dreamed that thou a lily wast, Within a lowly valley blest; A wingéd cherub flying past, Plucked thee, and placed within his breast, And there by guardian angel nurst, Thou took'st a shape of human grace, Until, a lowly flower at first, Thou grew'st the first of mortal race. Alas! if I who still was blessed When thou wast but a lowly flower— To pluck thy image from my breast, Though thus thou will'st it, have no power; Thou still to me, though lifted high In hope and heart above the glen, Where first thou won my idol eye, Must spell my worship just as then.

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