• Ah, clemence! when I saw thee last
      Trip down the Rue de Seine,
    And turning, when thy form had past,
      I said, “We meet again,”—
    I dreamed not in that idle glance
      Thy latest image came,
    And only left to memory’s trance
      A shadow and a name.

    The few strange words my lips had taught
      Thy timid voice to speak,
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