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Trust not the ready lip
Whence flows the fulsome song—
True love aye gently hymns,
False love chaunts loud and long.
Young Beauty, cherish well
The bashful, anxious eye,
The lip that may not move,
The breast that stills the sigh—
A recreant to thee
Their lord will never be!