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CANTO I.] TO INEZ.

1.

, smile not at my sullen brow;

Alas! I cannot smile again:

Yet Heaven avert that ever thou

Shouldst weep, and haply weep in vain.

2.

And dost thou ask what secret woe

I bear, corroding Joy and Youth?

And wilt thou vainly seek to know

A pang, ev'n thou must fail to soothe?

3.

It is not love, it is not hate,

Nor low Ambition's honours lost,