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by Unknown

There for my lady’s bower

Built I the lofty tower,

Which, to this very hour,

Stands looking sea-ward.

“There lived we many years;

Time dried the maiden’s tears;

She had forgot her fears,

She was a mother;

Death closed her mild blue eyes,

Under that tower she lies;