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"Handsome and haughty!" a comment that came

From lips which were never accustomed to malice:

A girl with a presence superb as her name,

And charmingly fitted for love – in a palace!

And oft I have wished – for in musing alone

One's fancy is apt to be very erratic —

That the lady might wear – No! I never will own

A thought so decidedly undemocratic!

But if 'twere a coronet– this, I'll aver,

No duchess on earth could more gracefully wear it;

And even a democrat – thinking of her—

Might surely be pardoned for wishing to share it!