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BROKEN VOWS

SUGGESTED BY THE PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG FLORENTINE GIRL
AT VIENNA.

She has learned a sad lesson,—she trusted away A heart that loved wildly, but O, how sincere!She dreamed that such happiness could not decay, But the full-flowing fountain has shrunk to a tear.
She thought that the sun, which at morn shone so bright, Would surely shine on till the starlight appeared;—But sorrow came down on the cold wings of night, And all her youth cherished was trampled and seared;
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