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I've read your letter o'er and o'er again, / Happy to find you faithful do remain, / Besides forgiveness; though too much I fear, / I long have made you victim to despair.
You say two years with fervency I strove / To keep affection, constancy, and love; / But soon as crosses came upon my mind, / Was careless of you and appear'd unkind.