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Ae fond kiss, and then we sever! A farewell, and then forever! Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee. Who shall say that Fortune grieves him, While the star of hope she leaves him? Me, nae cheerful twinkle lights me, Dark despair around benights me.

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The soger frae the wars returns, The sailor frae the main,...

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But man to whom alone is given/ A ray direct from pitying /Heaven Glories in his heart humane /And creatures for his pleasure slain.

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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

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Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.

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Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

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I love you, what star do you live on?

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Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

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All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

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There's nought but care on ev'ry han', In ev'ry hour that passes, O:...

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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.

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The great Creator to revere Must sure become the creature; But still the preaching cant forbear, And ev'n the rigid feature: Yet ne'er with wits profane to range Be complaisance extended; An atheist laugh's a poor exchange For deity offended.

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Of a' the airts the wind can blaw, I dearly like the west, For there the bonnie lassie lives, The lassie I lo'e best;

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See Social-life and Glee sit down, All joyous and unthinking,...

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O pale, pale now, those rosy lips, I aft hae kissed sae fondly;...

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On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly.

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Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh leave the light of Hope behind.

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'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.

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Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh what were man?—a world without a sun.

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The waters wild went o'er his child, And he was left lamenting.

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