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Could Love for ever
Run like a river
And Time's Endeavour
Be tried in vain,
No other Pleasure
With this could measure
And link a Treasure
We'd hug the chain.
But since our sighing
Ends not in dying
And formed for flying
Love plumes his wing,
Then for this reason
Let's love a Season,
But let that Season be only Spring.--
Could Love for ever
Run like a river
And Time's Endeavour
Be tried in vain,
No other Pleasure
With this could measure
And link a Treasure
We'd hug the chain.
But since our sighing
Ends not in dying
And formed for flying
Love plumes his wing,
Then for this reason
Let's love a Season,
But let that Season be only Spring.--