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To Caroline - Illustration on Sermon | IllustrateTheWord

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To Caroline

By George Gordon, Lord ByronSource: George Gordon, Lord Byron - PoetryDB (Public Domain)322 words

You say you love, and yet your eye

No symptom of that love conveys,

You say you love, yet know not why,

Your cheek no sign of love betrays.

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