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First Line: How long shall I in mine affliction mourn
Last Line: Yet deigns not with one simple sign t' express it.
Subject(s): Despair; Faith; Love; Belief; Creed


How long shall I in mine affliction mourn,
A burden to myself, distressed in mind?
When shall my interdicted hopes return
From out despair, wherein they live confined?
When shall her troubled brow, charged with disdain,
Reveal the treasure which her smiles impart?
When shall my faith the happiness attain
To break the ice that hath congealed her heart?
Unto herself herself my love doth summon,
If love in her hath any power to move;
And let her tell me as she is a woman,
Whether my faith hath not deserved her love
I know she cannot but must needs confess it,
Yet deigns not with one simple sign t' express it.





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