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We meet not as we parted, / We feel more than all may see; / My bosom is heavy-hearted, / And thine full of doubt for me: - / One moment has bound the free.
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That moment is gone for ever, / Like lightning that flashed and died- / Like a snowflake upon the river- / Like a sunbeam upon the tide, / Which the dark shadows hide.
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That moment from time was singled / As the first of a life of pain; / The cup of its joy was mingled / -Delusion too sweet though vain! / Too sweet to be mine again.
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Sweet lips, could my heart have hidden / That its life was crushed by you, / Ye would not have then forbidden / The death which a heart so true / Sought in your briny dew.
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. / . / . / Methinks too little cost / For a moment so found, so lost!