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At Lady Cara's Kindness
Some people think of kindness as mere duty,
an inconvenient burden often met
with some reluctance. But, most graciously,
you, Lady Cara, render helpful aid
without the least concern to mark a debt
or (as brutes do) demand that it be paid
at once. Your soul displays profoundest grace
that even lights (most visibly) your face,
especially your lyric, winsome smile.
Yours are the footsteps on that extra mile.
Yours are the courtesies of mind and heart
that render whole what once was only part.
Thus, you inspire this sonnet's poetry
which has not yet begun to praise your beauty.
Starward
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