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90 Literary Gazette, 2nd August 1823, Page 490

ORIGINAL POETRY. SONGS. Oh never throw thy love away Upon a heart like mine, The rose's leaf, the blue sea-spray, Would be a safer shrine.

The rose's leaf will fade when blown, The spray pass from the sea; But neither are so quickly gone As love that trusts to me.

For e'en if love could touch my heart, Now free as yonder wave, It would a meteor fire depart, Its very birth its grave.

Chain winds that pass from flower to flower, And bid them cease to rove, And then I will believe your power Even to fix my love.