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Love's Vain Expense.

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Rendete a gli occhi miei.     Give back unto mine eyes, ye fount and rill,             Those streams, not yours, that are so full and strong,             That swell your springs, and roll your waves along             With force unwonted in your native hill!     And thou, dense air, weighed with my sighs so chill,             That hidest heaven's own light thick mists among,             Give back those sighs to my sad heart, nor wrong             My visual ray with thy dark face of ill!     Let earth give back the footprints that I wore,             That the bare grass I spoiled may sprout again;             And Echo, now grown deaf, my cries return!     Loved eyes, unto mine eyes those looks restore,             And let me woo another not in vain,             Since how to please thee I shall never learn!

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