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I ask-but not the glittering pomp- / Of wealth and pageantry; / Nor splendid dome: a rural cot / My domicile shall be.
'Tis not to mingle with the gay, / The opulent, and proud; / 'Tis not to court the flattering smile / Of an admiring crowd.
I ask a heart-a faithful heart- / Congenial with mine own, / Whose deep, unchanging love shall bum / For me, and me alone:
A heart in sorrow's cheerless hour / To soften every care; / To taste with me the sweets of life, / And all its ills to share.
Thus linked by friendship's golden chain, / Ah, who more blessed than we; / Unruffled as the pearly stream / Our halcyon days would be.
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