"Laura Lee"

Allegheny   City, June 26, 1851 [year in darker pencil]
When vows of love were tru
I loved thee Laura Lee
Ah then thy heart wass youthful
Thy voice was glad and free
   —
Then life was in its morning
With raptures running wild
Then with each days returning
A new born spring time smiled
   —
The all that hope caresses
Lay throbbing at my breast
And all that love confesses
Thy lovely smile confesses

Yet Ah through that thy—
   {lips
Ah though thy tongue} may falter
I'll turn unto thy smile
And if that smile should alter
Thine eye still know no guile
if in
Thus while by any token
Thy early truth I see
I [?] care for me
The spell remains unbroken
I love thee Laura Lee