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Written for a lady, to be given with a ring, fashioned as a serpent;—the motto being,—“Let memory be the Slave of the Ring.”
Before we part, this mimic snake
I charm, and send to thee,
That it may keep from Time's attack
Thy memory of me.
I charm, and send to thee,
That it may keep from Time's attack
Thy memory of me.
Thus, amid Eastern India's lands,
As travellers have told,
The Rajah from all hostile hands
Protects his buried gold.
As travellers have told,
The Rajah from all hostile hands
Protects his buried gold.
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