Love Not
Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan
1808 to 1877
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Love not, love not, ye hapless sons of clay!
Hope's gayest wreaths are made of earthly flowers,—
Things are made to fade and fall away
Ere they blossomed for a few short hours.
Love not!
Love not! the thing ye love may change;
The rosy lip cease to smile on you,
The kindly-beaming eye grow and strange,
The heart still warmly beat, yet not true.
Love not!
Love not! the thing you love die,—
May perish from the gay and gladsome earth;
The silent stars, the blue and smiling sky,
Beam o'er its grave, as once upon its birth.
Love not!
not! O warning vainly said
In present hours as years gone by!
Love flings a halo round the one's head,
Faultless, immortal, till they change or die.
not!