Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems by the late Thomas Haynes Bayly; Edited by his Widow. With A Memoir of the Author. In Two Volumes |
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THINK NOT OF ME, POOR PAGE.
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My page, look not wistfullyUpon thy lady's cheek,
For she can read in thy moist eye
The grief thou fain wouldst speak.
Thy kindness but augments the pain
It offers to assuage;
Go, seek thy sunny sports again,
Think not of me, poor page.
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My sadness will but make thee weep;Thou'lt win no smile from me;
So young a plant 'twere sin to keep
Beneath woe's poison tree.
I love thee, but I send thee forth
A captive from the cage.
I have no other friend on earth,
But heed not that, poor page.
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And thou dost weep, rememberingHow gay I us'd to be;
Weep not, for nothing now can bring
A sadder change to me.
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The darkest frowns of age.
Go hence, I cannot shed a tear;
Think not of me, poor page.
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