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The works of Mrs. Hemans

With a memoir of her life, by her sister. In seven volumes

Hemans, Felicia Dorothea Browne (1793-1835)

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Oh! if thou wilt not give thine heart,
Give back mine own to me,

Or bid thine image thence depart,
And leave me lone, but free.

Yet no! this mournful love of mine,
I would not from me cast!
Let me but dream 'twill win me thine
By its deep truth at last.

Can aught so fond, so faithful, live
Through years without reply?
Oh! if thine heart thou wilt not give,
Give me a thought, a sigh!

The first two lines of this song are literally translated from the German.