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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HE LOVES ME NOT WITH THAT FOND LOVE.
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I hear him say he loves me well,And I would fain believe;
He vows he'll ne'er abandon me,
And why should he deceive?
Yet still I think—and at the thought
My eyes with tears are dim,
He loves me not with that fond love
Which I have felt for him.
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He leaves me for the mountain chase,And for the courtly scene;
To me it were the greatest bliss
To be where he has been.
He leaves me that his laughing lip
May touch the goblet's brim;
He loves me not with that fond love
Which I have felt for him.
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III
Oh! woman dwells in lonelinessWhile restless man may rove;
Perhaps he was not made to feel
Her all engrossing love.
And thus I watch his late return,
My fading lamp I trim;
He loves me not with that fond love
Which I have felt for him.
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