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And life but a dream of happiness, 

 The world an Eden, where each joy to prove, 

 With time, a slave to minister to love. 

 Tis sad that thea an adverse fate should sever 

 Those golden joys they dreamt were joys for ever. 

 In vain their love, their fondest hopes in vain, 

 Vanished their dream no more to know again, 

 Those sweet desires, those springs of soft emotion, 

 That priceless gift a heart s unbought devotion ; 

 All that of earth to brighten life is given, 

 Firm as the faith, and pure as joys of Heaven. 

 Fate s summons comes ; together clasped they die 

 Together STEWED ! within the pot they lie ! 

 Mourn ye fond lovers ! their untimely fate, 

 Weep, weep, ye Cupids who on lovers wait 

 Yet weep them not, nor mourn their early doom 

 In JULIA S throat! they find an envied toinb! 



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