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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.

I

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?”

II

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.

III

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.

IV

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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V

“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.”