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Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFEG EHEH IJIJ KLKL MNMN ONON| A | |
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| When I hear you express an affection so warm | B |
| Ne'er think my belov'd that I do not believe | C |
| For your lip would the soul of suspicion disarm | D |
| And your eye beams a ray which can never deceive | C |
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| Yet still this fond bosom regrets whilst adoring | E |
| That love like the leaf must fall into the sear | F |
| That age will come on when remembrance deploring | E |
| Contemplates the scenes of her youth with a tear | G |
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| That the time must arrive when no longer retaining | E |
| Their auburn these locks must wave thin to the breeze | H |
| When a few silver hairs of those tresses remaining | E |
| Prove nature a prey to decay and disease | H |
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| 'Tis this my belov'd which spreads gloom o'er my features | I |
| Tho' I ne'er shall presume to arraign the decree | J |
| Which God has proclaim'd as the fate of his creatures | I |
| In the death which one day will deprive me of thee | J |
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| No jargon of priests o'er our union was mutter'd | K |
| To rivet the fetters of husband and wife | L |
| By our lips by our hearts were our vows alone utter'd | K |
| To perform them in full would ask more than a life | L |
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| But as death my belov'd soon or late shall o'ertake us | M |
| And our breasts which alive with such sympathy glow | N |
| Will sleep in the grave till the blast shall awake us | M |
| When calling the dead in earth's bosom laid low | N |
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| Oh then let us drain while we may draughts of pleasure | O |
| Which from passion like ours will unceasingly flow | N |
| Let us pass round the cup of love's bliss in full measure | O |
| And quaff the contents as our nectar below | N |
George Gordon Byron
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