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not pure affections change When fixed they once have been, Or that between two noble hearts Hate e'er can intervene!

Though coldness for a while may freeze The love-springs of the soul, Though angry pride its sympathies May for a time control,

Yet such estrangement cannot last— A tone, a touch, a look, Dissolves at once the icyness That crisp'd affection's brook:

Again they feel the genial glow Within the bosom burn, And all their pent-up tenderness With tenfold force return!