TO ——
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We have met and we have parted, Meet it were that love should die; Teach the winds, thou fond false-hearted, Teach the light wave constancy! We have loved as we shall never Dare on earth to love again! Hearts thus twined, when they shall sever, Wear no more love's bootless chain. Tell the waves to calm their motion, Tell the wind thy power to flee, Bid the chafed and restless ocean Sleep, aye, sleep unchangeably. Will the lash'd wave cease its wailing? Will the moaning billow rest? Then may Hope with joys unfailing, Fled like mine, appease thy breast.