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IRISH MELODIES.
TAKE BACK THE VIRGIN PAGE.
Written on returning a Blank Book.
I.
Take back the virgin page,
White and unwritten still;
Some hand, more calm and sage,
The leaf must fill.
Thoughts come, as pure as light,
Pure as even you require;
But oh! each word I write
Love turns to fire.
II.
Yet let me keep the book;
Oft shall my heart renew,
When on its leaves I look,
Dear thoughts of you!
Like you, 'tis fair and bright;
Like you, too bright and fair
To let wild passion write
One wrong wish there!
