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UNHALLOWED AND VIRTUOUS LOVE.
Unhallow'd love's a withering flameWhich kills the heart and blasts the name,
By its wild flashes risen;
While virtuous love, like sunlight showers,
But wakes the heart's most lovely flowers
And opens them to heaven.
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