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shall be tied to live with while their Love another, and shall be Night and Day wishing their beloved Rachel were in their Arms instead of the blear-eyed Leah, which they have taken in her Place.
But thus it is, and that too frequently to wonder at, that Men love the Person they do not marry, and marry the Person they cannot love.
Tell me, ye sacred Powers, which Rule on high.
If Love's a Heaven-born Passion, Tell me why,
Do Mortals love, and Heaven so oft deny?
If Love's a Heaven-born Passion, Tell me why,
Do Mortals love, and Heaven so oft deny?
Unhappy Man! by Laws unequal tye,
Bound to possess the Object he would fly;
And left to Love what he cannot enjoy.
Bound to possess the Object he would fly;
And left to Love what he cannot enjoy.
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