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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THE HEART THAT I GAVE TO THEE.
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The heart that I gave to theeHas never come back to me,
For though you may spurn it,
You cannot return it,
Once chained it can never go free.
When beauty I chance to see,
Then fain would I bend the knee;
But listlessly kneeling,
My vow wants true feeling;
Ah! where can my poor heart be?
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You say that my heart is freeTo rove like the summer bee,
Who when a chill shower
Kills one pretty flower,
Flies off to a fresh rose tree?
But chill'd by a frown from Thee,
Ah! what are new charms to me?
I lack when I view them
The heart to pursue them;
Then where can my poor heart be?
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