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Away! Away! O, Do Not Say.
Away! away! O, do not say
He can prove false to me:
Let me believe but this brief day
In his fidelity;
Tell me, that rivers backward flow,
That unsunned snows like fire-brands glow,
I may believe that lay,
But never can believe that he
Is false and fled away.
Ill acted part! ill acted part!
I knew his noble mind,
He could not break a trusting heart,
Nor leave his love behind;
Tell me yon sun will cease to rise,
Or stars at night to gem the skies,
I may believe such lay;
But never can believe that he
Is false and fled away.
