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“ W Inch flics from love ami languishes forstrife—" How strange that heart, to me so tender still," Should war with nature and its Letter will! “

“ Yea,strange indeed— that heart hath long beenchanged; 400

"Worm-like 'twas trampled — adder-likeavenged,

" Without one hope on earth beyond thy love," And scare a glimpse of mercy from above.

" Yet the same feeling which thou dost condemn," My very love to thee is hate to them,

" So closely mingling here, that disentwined,"I ccaSe to love thee when I love mankind:

" Yet dread not tins — the proof of all the past'• Assures the future that my love will last;

" Hut — Oh,Medora! nerve thy gentler heart 410“ This hour again — but not for long — we part/'

“ This hour we part! — niy heart foreboded this?" Thus ever fade my fairy dreams of bliss.

,f litis hour — it cannot be — this hour away!* ( Yon bark hath hardly anchored in the bav:

*' Her consort sti 1 ts absent,, and her crewl< Have need of rest before they toil anew;

" My love! thou mock’s my weakness; andwould’st steel

tg My breast before the time wbeu it must feel;