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First Line: There is a change -- and I am poor
Last Line: Of my fond heart, hath made me poor.
Subject(s): Loss; Memory; Pain; Absense


THERE is a change -- and I am poor;
Your love hath been, not long ago,
A fountain at my fond heart's door,
Whose only business was to flow;
And flow it did: not taking heed
Of its own bounty, or my need.
What happy moments did I count!
Blest was I then all bliss above!
Now, for that consecrated fount
Of murmuring, sparkling, living love,
What have I? shall I dare to tell?
A comfortless and hidden well.
A well of love -- it may be deep --
I trust it is, -- and never dry:
What matter? if the waters sleep
In silence and obscurity.
-- Such change, and at the very door
Of my fond heart, hath made me poor.






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