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The Tyrant Sway.

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The heart that owns thy tyrant sway,         Whate'er its hopes may be,     Is like a bark that drifts away         Upon a shoreless sea!     No compass left to guide her on,     Upon the surge she's tempest-torn--         And such is life to me!     And what is life when love is fled?         The world, unshared by thee?     I'd rather slumber with the dead,         Than such a waif to be!     The bark that by no compass steers     Is lost, which way soe'er she veers--         And such is life to me!

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