Poems and Essays By the late William Caldwell Roscoe. (Edited with a Prefatory Memoir, by his Brother-in-law, Richard Holt Hutton) |
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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.
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.
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.
And if the tone be jarred,
Those strings which should in concord move
Are touched amiss and marred.
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