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The lovely toy so fiercely sought
Has lost its charm by being caught.
For every touch that wooed its stay
Has brushed the brightest hues away;
'Till charm and hue and beauty gone,
'Tis left to fly or fall alone.
With wounded wing or bleeding breast
Ah 1 where shall either victim rest ?
Can this with faded pinion soar
From rose to tulip as before ?
Or beauty blighted in an hour
Find joy within her broken bower ?
No : gayer insects fluttering by
Ne'er droop the wing o'er those that die,
And lovelier things have mercy shewn
To every failing but their own,
And every woe a tear can claim
Except an erring sister's shame.
Byron.
Has lost its charm by being caught.
For every touch that wooed its stay
Has brushed the brightest hues away;
'Till charm and hue and beauty gone,
'Tis left to fly or fall alone.
With wounded wing or bleeding breast
Ah 1 where shall either victim rest ?
Can this with faded pinion soar
From rose to tulip as before ?
Or beauty blighted in an hour
Find joy within her broken bower ?
No : gayer insects fluttering by
Ne'er droop the wing o'er those that die,
And lovelier things have mercy shewn
To every failing but their own,
And every woe a tear can claim
Except an erring sister's shame.
Byron.
Like a coy maiden, ease, when courted most
Farthest retires—an idol at whose shrine
Who oftenest sacrifice are favoured least
Cowper.
Farthest retires—an idol at whose shrine
Who oftenest sacrifice are favoured least
Cowper.
——— Nature hath assigned
Two sovereign remedies for human grief;
Religion, surest, firmest, first, and best,
Two sovereign remedies for human grief;
Religion, surest, firmest, first, and best,
