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ERHAPS, long hence, when I have passed away, Some other's feature, accent, thought like mine. Will carry you back to what I used to say, And bring some memory of your love's decline.

Then you may pause awhile and think, "Poor jade!" And yield a sigh to me—as gift benign, Not as the tittle of a debt unpaid To one who could to you her all resign—