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TO LOVERS.
Ye lovers who feel ye could give all your love,
To prove your affection is constant and dear;
Who have sighed and regretted, who inwardly prove,
Your life is as nothing if love do not cheer;
Have ye ever felt sorrow,
Whilst comfort you'd borrow?
From hope of affection,
Alas met rejection!
O think ye what painful sensation is given;
Rejected by love from the presence in Heaven.
To prove your affection is constant and dear;
Who have sighed and regretted, who inwardly prove,
Your life is as nothing if love do not cheer;
Have ye ever felt sorrow,
Whilst comfort you'd borrow?
From hope of affection,
Alas met rejection!
O think ye what painful sensation is given;
Rejected by love from the presence in Heaven.
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O never be thine on the earth to lament,
The loss of affection, a fatal event!
For the heart must decay, if it fixes its bliss
On the hope of attachment in sorrow like this!
May the honest for ever,
United ne'er sever,
O nothing e'er part,
Their affectionate heart:
But love be for ever unclouded with leaven,
In earth be respected, triumphant in Heaven.
The loss of affection, a fatal event!
For the heart must decay, if it fixes its bliss
On the hope of attachment in sorrow like this!
May the honest for ever,
United ne'er sever,
O nothing e'er part,
Their affectionate heart:
But love be for ever unclouded with leaven,
In earth be respected, triumphant in Heaven.
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