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A GIRL'S MESSAGE TO HER LOVER.
I.
Tell him, though fortune dooms that we must part,I cannot make his image leave my heart;
Tell him that they may keep me from him,—yet
He's with me still, as though we hourly met.
II.
Wealth and Glories, tell him, all are dimTo the sweet sunshine of one thought of him,—
And feelings, deeper than the tongue can tell,
Have grown even deeper since I sigh'd Farewell!
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