FORGIVE me, dear and, if you can, forget,
As all things are forgotten soon or late,
Desire and satisfaction, love and hate,
Pleasure and pain, and rapture and regret ;
Fair friend, forgive me, for my eyes are wet
With unfamiliar tears : close not the gate
Of pity against me where I humbly wait ;
Ah ! think of all the years since first we met.
If to be prudent, cool of brain and blood,
Is to be happy, you may rest content,
And pity your poor servant who has spent
His strength in trouble with a desperate flood
Of passionate thoughts : as you are fair, be good,
And spare my vexed soul further punishment.
(Justin H. McCarthy)
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