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Oh! ever thus from childhood’s hour, I’ve seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower, But ’twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die!
Oh! ever thus from childhood’s hour, I’ve seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower, But ’twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die!
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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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 181 · printed citation: Thomas Moore (Lalla Rookh). · compiler notes excluded
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