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DUETT.

SHE.
When grief the heart benumbs,
How the pulses languish!

HE.
Hope, like a cherub, comes,
Then we lose the anguish.

SHE.
Here, late, were clouds of gloom,
All the scene surrounding;

HE.
Now all is dressed in bloom,
Hearts are gayly bounding.

BOTH.
Still, then, in pleasure's bower,
Let us rove delighted;
Joy is a transient flower,
Taste it ere 't is blighted.

SHE.
Should dark despair return
On the coming morrow,

HE.
Love's torch will brighter burn
'Mid the gloom of sorrow.

SHE.
Love may himself decamp,
In the hour of sadness;

HE.
Then feed the urchin's lamp
With the oil of gladness.

BOTH.
Thus, here, in pleasure's bower,
Let us rove delighted;
Joy is a transient flower,
Taste it, ere 't is blighted.