True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly ; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link,... The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem - Page 111by Walter Scott - 1811 - 295 pagesFull view - About this book
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...With dead desire it doth not die; /TFlTthe secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, \Vhich .-=7 Now leave we Margaret and lier knight, To tell, you of the approaching fight. xrv Their warning... | |
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