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First Line: Away to th' other world, away
Last Line: The world has no more room for me.


AWAY to th' other world, away,
In this I can no longer stay;
I long enough in this have stayed
To see myself poorly betrayed,
Forsaken, robb'd and left alone,
And to all purposes undone.
What then can tempt me to live on,
My peace and honour being gone!
O yes! I still am call'd upon
To stay by my affliction.
Oh Fair Affliction! let me go,
You best can part with me I know;
'Tis an ill natur'd pride you take
To triumph o'er the fool you make,
And you lose time in trampling o'er
One, whilst you might make twenty more.
Your eyes have still the conqu'ring pow'r
They had in that same dang'rous hour
They laid me at your beauties' feet,
Your roses still as fair and sweet;
And there more hearts are to subdue,
But, oh! not one that's half so true.
Dismiss me then t' eternal rest,
I cannot live but in your breast;
Where, banished by inconstancy,
The world has no more room for me.





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