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ON PARTING.
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The kiss, dear maid! thy lip has leftShall never part from mine,
Till happier hours restore the gift
Untainted back to thine.
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Thy parting glance, which fondly beams,An equal love may see:
The tear that from thine eyelid streams
Can weep no change in me.
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I ask no pledge to make me blestIn gazing when alone;
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Whose thoughts are all thine own.
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Nor need I write—to tell the taleMy pen were doubly weak:
Oh! what can idle words avail,
Unless the heart could speak?
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By day or night, in weal or woe,That heart, no longer free,
Must bear the love it cannot show,
And silent ache for thee.
March, 1811.
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