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Honest lover whosoever, If in all thy love was ever One wav’ring thought; if e’er thy flame Were not still even, still the same,— Know this, Thou lov’st amiss; And to love true, Thou must begin again, and love anew.
Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin: Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others.
Honest lover whosoever, If in all thy love was ever One wav’ring thought; if e’er thy flame Were not still even, still the same,— Know this, Thou lov’st amiss; And to love true, Thou must begin again, and love anew.