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1747–1809

SONNET XXXII.

Anna Seward

Behold him now his genuine colours wear, That specious False-One, by whose cruel wiles I lost thy amity; saw thy dear smiles Eclips'd; those smiles, that us'd my heart to cheer,

Wak'd by thy grateful sense of many a year When rose thy youth, by Friendship's pleasing toils Cultur'd;— but DYING!— O! for ever fade The angry fires.— Each thought, that might upbraid

Thy broken faith, which yet my soul deplores, Now as eternally is past and gone As are the interesting, the happy hours, Days, years, we shar'd together. They are flown!

Yet long must I lament thy hapless doom, Thy lavish'd life and early-hasten'd tomb.

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