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A gentle story of two lovers young, / Who met in innocence and died in sorrow, / And of one selfish heart, whose rancour clung / Like curses on them; are ye slow to borrow / The lore of truth from such a tale? / Or in this world's deserted vale, / Do ye not see a star of gladness / Pierce the shadows of its sadness,- / When ye are cold, that love is a light sent / From Heaven, which none shall quench, to cheer the innocent?