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Lays of Ancient Virginia

by James Avis Bartley

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Blue-Eyed Ella

Oh blue-eyed Ella’s face is fair,
And beautiful her braided hair,
As fair the feelings that do speak
Upon her pure and placid cheek.

Oh! blue-eyed Ella’s heart is kind
With warm desires by Heav’n refin’d;
Amid this world of crime and ill,
She walks serene and sinless still.

Oh! blue-eyed Ella! keep for me,
A thought from scorn and coldness free;
I fain would ask, I fain would find
A memory in so blest a mind.

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