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Why should I speak these words of doom To one of fairy glee? Alas! who ever look'd on bloom, Nor thought how it would be? Soon, nothing but a thing to keep, For weary memory to weep, And thus it is with thee; For all thy beauty and thy breath Are nurst by care, to end in death!

L. E. L.