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The miscellaneous works (1813)

Dallas, Robert Charles (1754-1824)
  
[epigraph]
  
[dedication]

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POEMS
  
EPISTLE:
  
ELEGIAC EPISTLE.
  
EPIGRAM.
  
EPITAPH:
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SONGS.
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IV.
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IV.

[When Hope endears the Lover's chain]

When Hope endears the Lover's chain,
And sooths the enamoured heart;
When Beauty smiles to hear the strain,
How pleasing is the smart!
But if Despair the sting increase,
And every Hope remove;
If Beauty beam no ray of peace,
How dreadful 'tis to love!
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