This lyric may have originated in a response to her aunt Emily de Viry
's Catholic marriage. The speaker in the poem describes an idle, even a weary and uneasy moment, at the keyboard of...
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Adelaide Procter
The year-long visit in 1853-54 to her aunt Emily de Viry
, a Catholic convert who was associated with the court at Turin, had a formative influence on AP
's life and religious beliefs...