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JUAN BAUTISTA DE ARRTAZA.

Let us time's tyranny defy,
And distance, constant thus
Remaining in that changeless tie,
That then united us.

When rises first the beamy sun,
When sets his beauteous ray,
When moon and stars their courses run,
On thee my thoughts will stay.
From that enchanting form my heart
No moment will be free;
And traitress thou, when I depart
Wilt ne'er ev'n think of me!

At lonely hours across my thought
Gulf'd in the ocean vast,
The scenes to memory will be brought
With thee I saw and pass'd.
Then will my sorrows make me feel
My lot more dark to be,
And thou more cruel than the steel
Wilt ne'er ev'n think of me!

"There first her matchless form I saw;
There first my faith I swore;
And from her flattering lips could draw

The happy 'Yes' they, wore!"