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Song By Edgar Allan Poe
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I SAW thee on thy bridal day -
    When a burning blush came o'er thee,
Though happiness around thee lay,
    The world all love before thee:

And in thine eye a kindling light
    (Whatever it might be)
Was all on Earth my aching sight
   Of Loveliness could see.

That blush, perhaps, was maiden shame -
    As such it well may pass -
Though its glow hath raised a fiercer flame
    In the breast of him, alas!

Who saw thee on that bridal day,
    When that deep blush _would_ come o'er thee,
Though happiness around thee lay,
    The world all love before thee.



1827.

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