But he who searches reads them in her eyes,

In the avenging frown, in the regretting sighs:

These are his signals, and he learns tb steer

The straighter course whenever they appear.

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“Pass we ten years, and what was Clelia’s fate?”

At an attorney’s board alert she sate,

Not legal mistress: he with other men

Once sought her hand, but other views were then;

And when he knew he might the bliss command,