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First Line: Love never jests, though in his words at times
Last Line: For love allegiance owes and pays alone to thee.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


Love never jests, though in his words at times
He seems to laugh in folly's motley mood,
And like a fool makes merry with stale rhymes
To jangle down the plaints of solitude.
Alas! his mirth is but a mask to hide
The gnawing fire that 'neath this mummery glows;
Though all seem fair upon the outward side,
Within there dwell a host of warring woes.
Despair with pallid front now seeks to drive
Hope from the citadel, who fain would stay;
And so these two in war contending strive,
While gentle Love stands trembling at the fray:
Come thou, fair Queen, and end this cruelty,
For Love allegiance owes and pays alone to thee.





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