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The Loving One Writes.

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The look that thy sweet eyes on mine impress     The pledge thy lips to mine convey, the kiss,     He who, like me, hath knowledge sure of this,     Can he in aught beside find happiness?     Removed from thee, friend-sever'd, in distress,     These thoughts I vainly struggle to dismiss:     They still return to that one hour of bliss,     The only one; then tears my grief confess.     But unawares the tear makes haste to dry:     He loves, methinks, e'en to these glades so still,     And shalt not thou to distant lands extend?     Receive the murmurs of his loving sigh;     My only joy on earth is in thy will,     Thy kindly will tow'rd me; a token send!

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