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8 Literary Gazette, 26th March, 1825, Page 203

ORIGINAL POETRY. LOVE'S REPROACHES.

I deeply feel what Love In its holiness should be, And once there was a time When such was my love for thee. But that time is past and gone, Past like a summer shower; It was too violent Not to exhaust its power. Oh! the bosom will rebel Against a tyrant's sway, Tho’ its best blood must be shed, E're he be driven away. And thus it was with me; I may not say how well I trusted and I loved,— That your own heart may tell. If deep fidelity, That never knew a stain; If humbleness, like that Of the slave beneath the chain; If homage, like that paid To the monarch on his throne; If these may not, what may Show how much I was thine own.