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TO ANNE.
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Oh say not, sweet Anne, that the Fates have decreedThe heart which adores you should wish to dissever;
Such Fates were to me most unkind ones indeed,—
To bear me from Love and from Beauty for ever.
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Your frowns, lovely girl, are the Fates which aloneCould bid me from fond admiration refrain;
By these, every hope, every wish were o'erthrown,
Till smiles should restore me to rapture again.
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As the ivy and oak, in the forest entwin'd,The rage of the tempest united must weather;
My love and my life were by nature design'd
To flourish alike, or to perish together.
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Then say not, sweet Anne, that the Fates have decreedYour lover should bid you a lasting adieu:
Till Fate can ordain that his bosom shall bleed,
His Soul, his Existence, are centred in you.
1807.
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