It chanc’d, her gay triumph to check,
As Amanda was dancing with grace,
The chain that encompass’d her neck
Came asunder, and fell from its place.
Be it mine, said the youth at her side,
To entrammel a heart that would stray.
It shall rest where it is, she replied,
Lest my own should be pilfer’d away.
Ay, bind it, he answer’d with zeal,
O for charity give it a chain;
For none that has power to steal
Will have virtue enough to refrain.
(James Hurdis)
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