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FIRST LOVE.
How refin'd the feeling
O'er the bosom stealing,
A new sense revealing,
In the heart's first love!
O'er the bosom stealing,
A new sense revealing,
In the heart's first love!
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Its soft spell extending,
Smiles to all things lending,
The whole world seems blending
With the heart's first love!
Smiles to all things lending,
The whole world seems blending
With the heart's first love!
If to new themes turning,
Soon, such lightness spurning,
Stronger grows our yearning
For the heart's first love.
Soon, such lightness spurning,
Stronger grows our yearning
For the heart's first love.
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