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Freedom And Love

By Thomas Campbell

Topics: classic

How delicious is the winning     Of a kiss at love's beginning,     When two mutual hearts are sighing     For the knot there's no untying!     Yet remember, 'Midst our wooing,     Love has bliss, but Love has ruing;     Other smiles may make you fickle,     Tears for other charms may trickle.     Love he comes, and Love he tarries,     Just as fate or fancy carries;     Longest stays, when sorest chidden;     Laughs and flies, when press'd and bidden.     Bind the sea to slumber stilly,     Bind its odour to the lily,     Bind the aspen ne'er to quiver,     Then bind Love to last for ever.     Love's a fire that needs renewal     Of fresh beauty for its fuel:     Love's wing moults when caged and captured,     Only free, he soars enraptured.     Can you keep the bee from ranging     Or the ringdove's neck from changing?     No! nor fetter'd Love from dying     In the knot there's no untying.

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About Thomas Campbell

Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) was a Scottish poet best known for "The Pleasures of Hope" and war poems like "Hohenlinden" and "Ye Mariners of England." He helped found the University of London.

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