In one who felt as once he felt
This might, perhaps, have fann’d the flame;
But now his heart no more will melt,
Because that heart is not the same.
As when the ebbing flames are low,
The aid which once improved their light,
And bade them burn with fiercer glow,
Now quenches all their blaze in night.
Thus has it been with passion’s fires-
As many a boy and girl remembers
(Lord George Gordon Byron)
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