II.

The Lady Adeline Amundeville

('T is an old Norman name, and to be found

In pedigrees, by those who wander still

Along the last fields of that Gothic ground)

Was high-born, wealthy by her father's will,

And beauteous, even where beauties most abound,

In Britain—which, of course, true patriots find

The goodliest soil of Body and of Mind.

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