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JASMINE. 
Jasminum. 
Language AMIABILITY. 
The blessings of her quiet life 
Fell on us like the dew ; 
And good thoughts, where her footstep pressed, 
Like fair J blossoms grew. 
Sweet promptings unto kindest deeds 
Were in her very look ; 
We read her face as one who reads 
A true and holy book. 
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The pleasure of a blessed hymn 
To which our hearts could move. 
The breathing of an inward psalm, 
A canticle of love. 
And we talked 0, how we talked ! her voice, so cadenced 
in the talking, 
Made another singing of the soul! a music without 
bars 
While the leafy sounds of woodlands, humming round 
where we were walking, 
Brought interposition worthy sweet as skies about 
the stars. 
And she spake such good thoughts natural, as if she al- 
ways thought them. 
Miss Baeeett. 
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