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I cannot love thee as I ought, For love reflects the thing beloved; My words are only words, and moved Upon the topmost froth of thought.
‘Yet blame not thou thy plaintive song,' The Spirit of true love replied; ‘Thou canst not move me from thy side, Nor human frailty do me wrong.