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Title: A Kentucky cardinal ; and, Aftermath
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925 Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925. Aftermath
Subjects: Authors, American
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.
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h having given her a black eye — a mostunspeakable phrase, surely picked up in theschool-room. As a return for the black eye,195 Sylvia said that she had composed a poem toherself, a copy of which she enclosed. I quote Sylvias commemorative verses uponher wrongs and her banishment. They showfeatures of metrical excess, and can scarcelyclaim to reflect the polish of her calmer art;but they are of value to me as proving thatwhatever the rebuke Georgiana may have given,it had rebounded from that elastic spirit. LINES TO MYSELF Oh ! she was a lovely girl, So pretty and so fair,With gentle, love-lit eyes, And wavy, dark brown hair. I loved the gentle girl, But, oh! I heaved a sighWhen first she told me she could see Out of only one eye. But soon I thought within myselfTd better save my tear and sigh To bestow upon an older person I knowWho has more than one eye. She is brave and intelligent Too. She is witty and wise.Shell accomplish more now than anotherperson I knowWho has two eyes.196
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SHE COULD SEE OUT OF ONLY ONE EVE. 197 Ah, you need not pity her! She needs not your tear and sigh.Shell make good use, I tell you, Of her one remaining eye. In the home where we are hastening, In our eternal Home on High,See that/0« be not rivalled By the girl with only one eye.1 Having thus dealt a thrust at Georgiana,Sylvia seems to have turned in the spirit ofrevenge upon her mother; and when she camehome some days ago she brought with her adistant cousin of her own age — a boy, enor-mously fat — whom she soon began to decoyaround the garden as her mother had beendecoyed by the general. Further to satirizethe similarity of lovers, she one day pinnedupon his shoulders rosettes of yellow ribbon. Sylvia has now passed from Scott to Moore ;and several times lately she has made herselfheard in the garden with recitations to the fatboy on the subject of Peris weeping before thegates of Paradise, or warbling elegies under the 1 Miss Sylvia could not have been speaking seriously when

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