LOVE! IF A GOD THOU ART
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Love! if a god thou art, Then evermore thou must Be merciful and just; If thou be just, O wherefore doth thy dart Wound mine alone, and not my lady’s heart? If merciful, then why Am I to pain reserved, Who have thee truly served, While she, that by thy power fits not afly, Laughs thee to scorn, and lives at liberty? Then, if a god thou wilt accounted be, Heal me like her, or else wound her like me. Francis Davison.
