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Sonnet XXXII. Subject Of The Preceding Sonnet Continued.

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Behold him now his genuine colours wear,         That specious False-One, by whose cruel wiles         I lost thy amity; saw thy dear smiles         Eclips'd; those smiles, that us'd my heart to cheer,      Wak'd by thy grateful sense of many a year         When rose thy youth, by Friendship's pleasing toils         Cultur'd; - but DYING! - O! for ever fade         The angry fires. - Each thought, that might upbraid      Thy broken faith, which yet my soul deplores,         Now as eternally is past and gone         As are the interesting, the happy hours,      Days, years, we shar'd together. They are flown!         Yet long must I lament thy hapless doom,         Thy lavish'd life and early-hasten'd tomb.

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