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SONG IV. THE FAINTING KISS.
“Ah, faithless fair one,” Owen cries,“How are my fondest vows repaid!
“Alas! thy bosom's secret sighs
“Heave for the swain in yonder shade.
“The Chaplet I so vainly wove
“(Ah! now no longer priz'd) restore:
“Yet, was the moment crown'd with love,
“When that dear pledge my Ellen wore.”
‘Take, take,’ she cried, ‘that pledge of bliss,
‘But first, a dearer pledge display:
‘O give me, give me back the Kiss
‘Which, then, caught all my soul away.’
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