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The lines were fill'd with many a tender thing, All the impassioned heart's fond communing.

the scroll: I could not brook An eye to gaze on it, save mine; I could not bear another's look Should dwell upon one thought of thine. My lamp was burning by my side, I held thy letter to the flame, I marked the blaze swift o'er it glide, It did not even spare thy name.