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First Line: Poor, fond deluded heart! Wilt thou again
Last Line: And my charmed soul sinks vanquished by her strain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blachford, Mary


Poor, fond deluded heart! wilt thou again
Listen, enchanted, to the siren song
Of treacherous Pleasure? Ah, deceived too long,
Cease now at length to throb with wishes vain!
Ah, cease her paths bewildering to explore!
Betrayed so oft! yet recollect the woe
Which waits on disappointment; taught to know
By sad experience, wilt thou not give o'er
To rest, deluded, on the fickle wing
Which Fancy lends thee in her airy flight,
But to seduce thee to some giddy height,
And leave thee there a poor forsaken thing.
Hope warbles once again, Truth pleads in vain,
And my charmed soul sinks vanquished by her strain.





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