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<h1 id="id01750" style="margin-top: 6em">BELIEVE ME IF ALL THOSE ENDEARING YOUNG CHARMS.</h1>
<p id="id01751" style="margin-top: 2em">Believe me, if all those endearing young charms,<br/>
Which I gaze on so fondly today,<br/>
Were to change by to-morrow, and fleet in my arms,<br/>
Like fairy-gifts fading away,<br/>
Thou wouldst still be adored, as this moment thou art.<br/>
Let thy loveliness fade as it will.<br/>
And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart<br/>
Would entwine itself verdantly still.<br/></p>
<p id="id01752">It is not while beauty and youth are thine own,<br/>
And thy cheeks unprofaned by a tear,<br/>
That the fervor and faith of a soul can be known,<br/>
To which time will but make thee more dear;<br/>
No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets,<br/>
But as truly loves on to the close,<br/>
As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets,<br/>
The same look which she turned when he rose.<br/></p>
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