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Alas! how slight a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love— Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the storm when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fell off, Like ships that have gone down at sea, When the ocean was all tranquility! A something light as air—a look— A word unkind or wrongly taken; Oh, love that tempests never shook, A breath—a touch like this hath shaken.
Alas! how slight a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love— Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the storm when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fell off, Like ships that have gone down at sea, When the ocean was all tranquility! A something light as air—a look— A word unkind or wrongly taken; Oh, love that tempests never shook, A breath—a touch like this hath shaken.
Approximate author period: c. 1815 AD · industrial
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- Thomas Moore
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- Approximate author period: c. 1815 AD · industrial
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- Life and Literature (copyright 1910) (1910 AD)
Number 866 · printed citation: Thomas Moore
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