• She ’s loveliest of the festal throng
      In delicate form and Grecian face,—
    A beautiful, incarnate song,
      A marvel of harmonious grace,
    And yet I know the truth I speak:
      From those gay groups she stands apart,
    A rose upon her tender cheek,
        A thorn within her heart.

    Though bright her eyes’ bewildering gleams,
      ...