Occasional verse, moral and sacred Published for the instruction and amusement of the Candidly Serious and Religious [by Edward Perronet] |
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A SOLILOQUY,
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A SOLILOQUY,
Between Me and Myself.
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Once on a time, when all alone,I put this question to my heart:
“What single reason can be shewn,
“Why two such friends as we must part?”
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My heart then made me this reply:I wonder you should ask of me,
So native prone to speak a lye,
That truth and I can ne'er agree.
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But here's the reason, I suppose;You're pleas'd to take me for your foe:
Whereas, if I might all disclose,
'Tis will's the greatest of the two.
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So that for your complaints of me,That I am from all good estrang'd;
'Tis then your place, if so it be,
So see and get my nature chang'd.
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“You're right, my heart,” I cried, “for once,“I see 'tis not your fault alone;
“'Tis I and will that must renounce
“Ourselves, and then the work is done.”
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