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Literary Gazette, 16th November, 1822, Pages 728

II. - Lines written under a Picture of a Girl burning a Love-letter.

The lines were fill'd with many a tender thing, All the impassion'd heart's fond communing. I took the scroll: I could not brook An eye to gaze on it save mine; I could not bear another's look Should dwell upon one thought of thine. My lamp was burning by my side, I held thy letter to the flame, I mark'd the blaze swift o'er it glide, It did not even spare thy name. Soon the light from the embers past, I felt so sad to see it die, So bright at first, so dark at last, I fear'd it was love's history.