What though it may some cool observers strike,

That such fair sisters should be so unlike;

That still another and another comes,

And at the matron's table smiles and blooms;

That all appear as if they meant to stay

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Time undefined, nor name a parting day;

And yet, though all are valued, all are dear,

Causeless, they go, and seldom more appear:

Yet—let Suspicion hide her odious head,