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16 | Light within the Shade The Vow As your charms have sweetly bound me, Lovely Lilla! to confound me, Thus I make my solemn vow: Since that time no other maiden, Arrow, flame, so passion-laden, Shall my faithful heart allow. This I swear; my adoration Is the rite of a religion, Tenets I shall ne’er betray. That your heart in vows as holy You might bind to my heart solely, Angel, sick with hope I pray. On your snow-white hand I swear it, By your rose-lips’, fire-eyes’ merit, That you’ll be my only one. Whiles I live I swear I’ll never Traffic with another lover: Lili shall be mine—or none. 1803 ...

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