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If, when she appears i’ th’ room, Thou dost not quake, and art struck dumb; And, in striving this to cover, Dost not speak thy words twice over,— 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.
If, when she appears i’ th’ room, Thou dost not quake, and art struck dumb; And, in striving this to cover, Dost not speak thy words twice over,— Know this, Thou lov’st amiss; And to love true, Thou must begin again, and love anew.