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SONG FOR AN AIR BY HUMMEL by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS

Poet Analysis

First Line: OH! IF THOU WILT NOT GIVE THINE HEART
Last Line: GIVE ME A THOUGHT, A SIGH!
Subject(s): HUMMEL, JOHANN NEPOMUK (1778-1837);

OH! if thou wilt not give thine heart,
Give back my own to me;
For if in thine I have no part,
Why should mine dwell with thee?

Yet no! this mournful love of mine
I will not from me cast;
Let me but dream 'twill win me thine
By its deep truth at last!

Can aught so fond, so faithful, live
Through years without reply?
-- Oh! if thy heart thou wilt not give,
Give me a thought, a sigh!



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