English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
James Thomson
284. To Fortune
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An unrelenting foe to Love,
And when we meet a mutual heart
Come in between, and bid us part?
And wish and wish the soul away;
Till youth and genial years are flown,
And all the life of life is gone?
To bind the loveless, joyless vow,
The heart from pleasure to delude,
To join the gentle to the rude.
And I absolve thy future care;
All other blessings I resign,
Make but the dear Amanda mine.