 | Songs and Poems from 1819 to 1879 |  |
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TO------
ON HEARING OF HER INTENDED MARRIAGE.
And must those fairy visions drest
By fancy, vanish into air?
And must that hope desert my breast,
So long, so fondly, cherished there?
But thou'lt be happy, and that thought
Imparts a little bliss to me;
Yet, dearly is that little bought,
Since purchased by the loss of thee.
By fancy, vanish into air?
And must that hope desert my breast,
So long, so fondly, cherished there?
But thou'lt be happy, and that thought
Imparts a little bliss to me;
Yet, dearly is that little bought,
Since purchased by the loss of thee.
I will not curse his happier fate,
Though darker it hath made mine own:
I cannot sacrifice to hate
What still I fondly doat upon.
Yet is this heart a dreary void,
Once filled by love and hope and thee;
Thy lot is fixed, my hope destroyed,
E'en love will soon be crime in me.
Though darker it hath made mine own:
I cannot sacrifice to hate
What still I fondly doat upon.
Yet is this heart a dreary void,
Once filled by love and hope and thee;
Thy lot is fixed, my hope destroyed,
E'en love will soon be crime in me.
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