Somebody
Amelia Alderson Opie
1769 to 1853
You ask me why so oft I sigh,
While tears stand trembling in my eye
Alas! I can no more deny
That I'm in love with SOMEBODY.
But tho' I love, I love in vain,
He sees, but ah!— He scorns my pain,
And all I meet is cold disdain,
And chilling looks from SOMEBODY.
Yet while I live, He still shall be,
Beyond all others dear to me,
And Death alone shall set me free
From Love, and my dear SOMEBODY.
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