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HOPE AND WISH.
Ay! if Love for wishing cared not,
Or content with hoping dared not,
Thou and I might love for ever:
But our hopeful wishes,—they
Must forbid our longer stay:
Therefore must we sever.
Or content with hoping dared not,
Thou and I might love for ever:
But our hopeful wishes,—they
Must forbid our longer stay:
Therefore must we sever.
Dearest! tell Hope to forsake thee;
Say to Wish—Thou shalt not take me,
Love and I are friends for ever:
Or tell Wish from thee to stray;
Hope forbid to watch and pray:
So we may not sever.
Say to Wish—Thou shalt not take me,
Love and I are friends for ever:
Or tell Wish from thee to stray;
Hope forbid to watch and pray:
So we may not sever.
So we never shall be parted;
So, although I broken-hearted
Die, despairing of endeavour,
My poor ghost with thee shall stay:
Love, were Hope and Wish away,
From thee could not sever.
So, although I broken-hearted
Die, despairing of endeavour,
My poor ghost with thee shall stay:
Love, were Hope and Wish away,
From thee could not sever.
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