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I will take with me prayers and tears—if love Yet lingers in the heart I cannot harden; It will but raise a suppliant look above, That looks beyond the grave to ask for pardon.

Long penitence may set the worn one free— Oh, my lost spirit! make this last endeavour; Thanks for thy coldness, Louis, but for thee I had not borne to say, Farewell for ever!