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Literary Gazette, 8th February 1823, Page 91

Yes! I have sinned 'gainst love and thee; Both heart and harp have been untrue: I cannot deem how they could be    Wakened by any one but you!

But my harp in the sunshine hung, And I was proud to wake the strings, And other hands than thine have flung Flowers and laurel offerings.

Too dear I prized those flatteries, And bowed me at an idol's shrine, And breathed in vanity the sighs Which should have been thine, only thine.

I pray thee pardon, for the sake Of my so long devoted strain; I pray thee pardon me, and take Thy truant to thy heart again!