Penned her to tasks unending, unbegun,

Monotony and pain;

But all that day her feet paced with gay will,

Her child-heart circled free.

There was a white dove lighted on the sill

That cooed of Italy.

Plates in tint, engraved for THE CENTURY by C. W. Chadwick and H. Davidson

DRAWN BY W. T. BENDA

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