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That facred hour can 1 forget.
Can I forget the halloVd grove
where, by the winding Ayr, we met
To live one day of parting love’.
Eternity cannot efface
Thofe. records dear of transports paft.
Thy image at our Jaft embrace,
Ah, little thought we ’twas our laft*
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Ayr gurgling kifs’d his pebbled fhore,
O’erhung with wild_v»oods thickening green
The fragrant birch & hast horn hoar
Tsin’d amorous round the raptur'd fcenel
The tloners i'prang wanton to be prest,
The birds tang love on everv fpray,
Till too,too foon the gloving weft
Proclaim’d the fpeed of iving<-‘d day.
.Still (j’er thefe fcenes my mem’ry sakes
And fondly broods with mifer-care‘,
Time but th'in:prefsiou ftronger n akes,
As ft reams tbeir channels deept •• wear'.
My Mary, dear depaited Shade'
where is thy place of blifsfuJ reft?
See ft thou thy Lover lowly laid
Hear’ft thou the g’rOan s that rend his h re a ft !