“True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.”
To ____ . (Let other Bards of Angels sing), st. 3 (1824).
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“A luxury of deep repose! the heart
Must surely beat in quiet here.”
The London Literary Gazette, 1824