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BY FRANCES S. OSGOOD.

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Young Beauty looked over her gems one night,

And stole to her glass, with a petulant air:

She braided her hair, with their burning light,

Till they played like the gleam of a glowworm there.

Then she folded, over her form of grace,

A costly robe from an Indian loom

But a cloud overshadowed her exquisite face,