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NO, NEVER LOVE.
What, take thee for my wedded wife,
Then with another fly and leave thee?
No, never, never during life,
Have I the notion thus to grieve thee,
Never love, no never!
Then with another fly and leave thee?
No, never, never during life,
Have I the notion thus to grieve thee,
Never love, no never!
For well I know it would be death,
At once myself from thee to sever,
Like the eternal flight of breath,
The mystic spirit gone forever,
Never love, not ever!
At once myself from thee to sever,
Like the eternal flight of breath,
The mystic spirit gone forever,
Never love, not ever!
O! dol'rous cause who ever heard,
The sad, the melancholy story,
The tale of love's departing bird,
When wedlock lost her torch of glory,
Few ever love, few ever!
The sad, the melancholy story,
The tale of love's departing bird,
When wedlock lost her torch of glory,
Few ever love, few ever!
My husband leaves his native shore,
Along the roaring breakers sweeping,
Alas! and to return no more,
He leaves his love behind him weeping,
With hopes all lost forever!
Along the roaring breakers sweeping,
Alas! and to return no more,
He leaves his love behind him weeping,
With hopes all lost forever!
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Projecting o'er the frantic sea,
She gazes from a lofty mountain,
To have her soul from trouble flee,
Consigns her body to the fountain,
Resolv'd to die forever!
She gazes from a lofty mountain,
To have her soul from trouble flee,
Consigns her body to the fountain,
Resolv'd to die forever!
At once she makes her distant leap,
And bids her friends to languish never,
But yells before she strikes the deep,
And bids the world adieu forever,
Forever and forever!
And bids her friends to languish never,
But yells before she strikes the deep,
And bids the world adieu forever,
Forever and forever!
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