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Glenarvon

In Three Volumes [by Lady Caroline Lamb]
Lamb, Caroline (1785-1828)

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GLENARVON.
 
[This heart has never stoop'd its pride]
 
[Waters of Elle! thy limpid streams are flowing]
 
[“Farewell.”]
 
[By that smile which made me blest]
 
[“The sacred lore o'weel-plac'd love]

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[“The sacred lore o'weel-plac'd love]

“The sacred lore o'weel-plac'd love,
Luxuriantly indulge it;
But never tempt th' illicit rove,
Tho' naething should divulge it:
I wave the quantum o' the sin,
The hazard of concealing;
But och! it hardens a' within,
And petrifies the feeling.”
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