Note eh — THE GIAOUR.
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Yes If } Love indeed { doth spring descend be born } from heaven: A spark of that { immortal eternal celestial } fire To human hearts in mercy given, To lift from earth our low desire, A feeling from the Godhead caught, To wean from self { each our } sordid thought: Devotion sends the soul above, But Heaven itself descends to love, Yet marvel not, if they who love This present joy, this future hope Which taught them with all ill to cope, No more with anguish bravely cope.—[MS.]