 ... thou, sweet child, Who, list'ning to the voice of love, has left Thy friends, thy country, — oh may the wan hue Of pining memory, the sunk cheek, the eye Where tenderness yet dwells, atone, (if love Atonement need, by cruelty and wrong Beset,) atone...  Monte Video: Or, The Officer's Wife and Her Sister - Page 26by Elizabeth Thomas - 1816Full view - About this book
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...thy rash resolves. Ah, fruitless hope ! Day after day thy bloom Fades, and the tender lustre of thy eye Is dimm'd ; thy form, amid creation, seems The...was soft, And yet most animated, and thy step Light ae the roe's upon the mountains. Now, Thou eiltest hopeless, pale, beneath the tree That fann'd its... | |
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...Atonement need, by cruelty and wrong Beset,) atone e'en now thy rash resolves. Ah, fruitless hope ! Day after day thy bloom Fades, and the tender lustre of thine eye I*s dim'd ; thy form, amid creation, seems The only drooping thing. Thy look was soft, And yet most animated,... | |
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