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Rh The only expedient is general divorce,

To prevent universal disturbance and riot.

9.

But though husband and wife, shall at length be disjoin'd,

Yet woman and man ne'er were meant to dissever,

Our chains once dissolv'd, and our hearts unconfin'd,

We'll love without bonds, but we'll love you for ever.

10.

Though souls are denied you by fools and by rakes,

Should you own it yourselves, I would even then doubt you,

Your nature so much of celestial partakes,

The Garden of Eden would wither without you. , October 9, 1806.

THE TEAR.

O lachrymarum fons, tenero sacros

Ducentium ortus ex animo; quater

Felix! in imo qui scatentem

Pectore te, pia Nympha, sensit. , Alcaic Fragment.

1.

Friendship or Love

Our sympathies move;

When Truth, in a glance, should appear,