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 LOVER'S PETITION.

OOD Heart, that ownest all!

I ask a modest boon and small:

Not of lands and towns the gift,—

Too large a load for me to lift,—

But for one proper creature,

Which geographic eye,

Sweeping the map of Western earth,

Or the Atlantic coast, from Maine

To Powhatan's domain,

Could not descry.

Is 't much to ask in all thy huge creation,

So trivial a part,—

A solitary heart?