- Remember Thee!
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- Remember thee! yes, while there's life in this heart,
- It shall never forget thee, all lorn as thou art;
- More dear in thy sorrow, thy gloom, and thy showers,
- Than the rest of the world in their sunniest hours.
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- Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free,
- First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea,
- I might hail thee with prouder, with happier brow,
- But oh! could I love thee more deeply tha now?
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- No, thy chains as they rankle, thy blood as it runs,
- But make thee more painfully dear to thy sons --
- Whose hearts, like the young of the desert-bird's nest,
- Drink love in each life-drop that flows from thy breast.
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- If Thou'lt Be Mine
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- If thou'lt be mine, the treasures of air,
- Of earth, and sea, shall lie at thy feet;
- Whatever in Fancy's eye looks fair,
- Or in Hope's sweet music sounds most sweet,
- Shall be ours -- if thou wilt be mine, love!
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- Bright flowers shall bloom wherever we rove,
- A voice divine shall talk in each stream;
- The stars shall look like world of love,
- And this earth be all one beautiful dream
- In our eyes -- if thou wilt be mine, love!
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- And thoughts, whose source is hidden and high,
- Like streams that come from heaven-ward hills,
- Shall keep our hearts, like meads, that lie
- To be bathed by those eternal rills,
- Ever green, if thou wilt be mine, love!
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- All this and more the Spirit of Love
- Can breathe o'er them who feel his spells;
- That heaven, which forms his home above,
- He can make on earth, wherever he dwells,
- As thou'lt own, -- if thou wilt be mine, love!
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- So warmly we met
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- So warmly we met and so fondly we parted,
- That wich was the sweeter even I could not tell, -
- That first look of welcome her sunny eyes darted,
- Or that tear of passion, which blest our farewell.
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- To meet was a heaven and to part thus another, -
- Our joy and our sorrow seemed rivals in bliss;
- Oh! Cupid’s two eyes are not like each other
- In smiles and in tears than that moment to this.
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- The first was like day-break, new, sudden, delicious, -
- The dawn of a pleasure scarce kindled up yet;
- The last like the farewell of daylight, more precious,
- More glowing and deep, as ‘t is nearer ists set.
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- Our meeting, tho’ happy, was tinged by a sorrow
- To think that such happiness could not remain;
- While our parting, tho’ sad, gave a hope that to-morrow
- Would bring back the blest hour of meeting again.
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