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"If you can bear her, ere the sun is set, To yonder summit: 'tis but a light burden, And I have heard that lovers can do wonders!" He deemed it might not be; but what has love E'er found impossible! - - - - - Leandro took his mistress in his arms. Crowds gathered round to look on the pale youth, And his yet paler Inez; but she hid Her face upon his bosom, and her hair, Whose loose black tresses floated on the wind, Was wet with tears! - - They paused to rest awhile Beneath a mulberry's cool sanctuary— (Ill-omened tree, two lovers met their death Beneath thy treacherous shade! 'Twas in old time Even as now:)—it spread its branches round, The fruit hung like dark rubies 'mid the green