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RONDEL by AUSTIN PHILIPS

First Line: OH, DARK-BROW'D WITCH, THY LAUGHING EYES
Last Line: OH, DARK-BROW'D WITCH, THY LAUGHING EYES!
Subject(s): DESIRE; HEARTS; LOVE; PASSION;

OH, dark-brow'd witch, thy laughing eyes
Have smiled away the heart of me:
To rend the wretch that lives for thee
What torture next wilt thou devise?

Wilt never drink thy fill of sighs—
The fit reward of constancy?
Oh, dark-brow'd witch, thy laughing eyes
Have smiled away the heart of me.

Say, Siren, say what need to prize
My anguish? If thou wilt not be
Mine own, in mercy set me free:
Nor bend on love, that bleeding lies,
Oh, dark-brow'd witch, thy laughing eyes!



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