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love, And Ma.ry, now we meet rro more, rT n_l'ess we meet a _ hove.
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Too well thou know'st liow- -much I lovd-.
Thou knew'st my hopes liow fair.'
But all those hopes are blighted now,
They point hut to despair.
Thus doom'd to ceaseless, hopeless love,
I haste to India's shore J.
For here how can I longer stay 1 *, . •,
.And call thee mine ixo . more !
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Now, Mary, ' now the struggle's oe'r,
And tho' I still must love,
Yet, Mary, here we meet no more,
0,may we meet above!
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be chief o? a 1 the <lan> If thoii art spared to l>e a. man.
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Leeze me on thy bormit iraigie.
An' thou live thou'll lilt a naigie,
Travel the country thro' and tliro',
And bring- hame a Carlyle cow.
Thro' the lawlands, o'er the border,
Wecl, my babie, may thou lurder;
Herry the loims o' .the laigh countrie,
Sy-nc to the Nioiilaivds hame to me .
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