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Oh! the Sickening Sensation!

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Oh! the sickening sensation!             Oh! the burning agitation                     In my soul!             Oh! the awful desolation                     Of my soul!             And my breast is sore with sighing.             Comfort to myself denying         Comfort and relief denying to my soul distrest and sore;             While that worst of all diseases             With a pain that naught appeases                     Ever burns             While a pain that grimly pleases                     Alway burns,             Kindled by thy bright eye's beaming,             By thy brilliant, blue eye's beaming,         When I saw thee, saw and loved thee on that fatal eve of yore;             And anon it has been living,             And a blissful sadness giving                     While with thee,             Mingled bliss and sadness giving                     While with thee;             But, ah! now its woful waging,             Laying waste with cruel raging         This my heart, as with a vulture gnawing at its very core!             Would kind angels waft me to thee!             Waft me for one moment to thee!             Let me gaze one moment on thee!             But one blissful moment on thee!         Satisfy this languid longing for the one whom I adore!         Oh! to quench this lethal longing for the one whom I adore!

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