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Songs of a Stranger

by Louisa Stuart Costello

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FROM THE SAME.

Mi lagnerò tacendo, &c.

In silent and in sad regret,
My life shall pass away;
But bid me not my love forget—
Oh! how can I obey?
Wilt thou the only hope destroy
That still survives for me?
The lonely, miserable joy
Of perishing for thee?