The Rock Of The Betrayed

by Caroline Sheridon Norton

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Then spoke the young Italian girl
With a sweet and modest grace,
As she lifted up her soft black eyes
And looked them in the face:

"A stranger and an orphan comes
To Allan's native land,
And she needs the mother's welcome smile,
And the brother's friendly hand.

"Be thine! oh, stately lady - thine -
The rule that thou dost crave,
For Allan's love is all I earned,
And all I seek to have.

"And trust me, brother, tho' my words
In foreign accents fall,
The heart is of no country born,
And my heart will love you all."

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