"When'er with soft serenity she smiled, Or caught the orient blush of quick surprise, How sweetly mutable, how brightly wild, The liquid lustre darted from her eyes?"
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On the Death of a Lady (1760), The poems of William Mason, vol. 1, 1822, p. 86
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William Mason (poet)
William Mason (12 February 1724 – 7 April 1797) was an English poet, editor and gardener.
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