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Poems and Essays

By the late William Caldwell Roscoe. (Edited with a Prefatory Memoir, by his Brother-in-law, Richard Holt Hutton)
Roscoe, William Caldwell (1823-1859)

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MINOR POEMS.
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SONNETS.
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ELIDUKE, COUNT OF YVELOC.
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VIOLENZIA.
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ACT I.
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ACT II.
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ACT III.
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ACT V.
  
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41

EXCUSE.

Blame me not, love, that I do wear
An ever-changing hue;
You are my sunshine, and I bear
My lights and shades from you.
Do not your lover, love, upbraid
To show a hasty mind;
The heaven itself is not more staid,
So you continue kind.
I am your instrument, dear love;
And if the tone be jarred,
Those strings which should in concord move
Are touched amiss and marred.
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