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73 Literary Gazette, 14th August, 1824, Pages 524

ORIGINAL POETRY. CONSTANCY, A SONG. Forget thee—or forget What my heart hath so dearly known? Deemest thou that wholly from earth All truth and faith are flown?

Oh! write your love on the sand, And the wave will wash it away; Or, place your trust in the flower The next summer sun will decay!

But take an emerald ring, And thereon grave your name; Thro' the lapse and change of years It still will be the same.

And such my heart—if you fear That aught like change will be shown; ’Tis I that shall weep for the change, For the falsehood must be thine own. L. E. L.