Baxter, George: The Pictorial album: or cabinet of paintings for the year ...: Containing eleven designs, executed in oil colours: with illustrations in verse and prose (London: Chapman & Hall, 1837)

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ZENOBIA.

To see him, hear him, is enough
For happiness to crave ;
I would not be a crowned queen
So I might be his slave.
What has the wide world in its bounds
That I would dot resign
For the sweet empire of his heart,
To win and keep it mine ?