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To A Proud Beauty - A Valentine

By Adam Lindsay Gordon

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Though I have loved you well, I ween,     And you, too, fancied me,     Your heart hath too divided been     A constant heart to be.     And like the gay and youthful knight,     Who loved and rode away,     Your fleeting fancy takes a flight     With every fleeting day.     So let it be as you propose,     Tho hard the struggle be;     Tis fitter far, that goodness knows!     Since we cannot agree.     Lets quarrel once for all, my sweet,     Forget the past, and then     Ill kiss each pretty girl I meet,     While youll flirt with the men.

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Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833–1870) was an Australian poet, horseman, and politician. His bush ballads — "The Sick Stockrider," "How We Beat the Mace" — made him Australia's most popular poet. He is one of only two poets with a bust in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner.

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