The works of Lord Byron A new, revised and enlarged edition, with illustrations. Edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge and R. E. Prothero |
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ON FINDING A FAN.
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In one who felt as once he felt,This might, perhaps, have fann'd the flame;
But now his heart no more will melt,
Because that heart is not the same.
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As when the ebbing flames are low,The aid which once improved their light,
And bade them burn with fiercer glow,
Now quenches all their blaze in night.
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Thus has it been with Passion's fires—As many a boy and girl remembers—
While every hope of love expires,
Extinguish'd with the dying embers.
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The first, though not a spark survive,Some careful hand may teach to burn;
The last, alas! can ne'er survive;
No touch can bid its warmth return.
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Or, if it chance to wake again,Not always doom'd its heat to smother,
It sheds (so wayward fates ordain)
Its former warmth around another.
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