Love
Sylvia's Song
From Victorian Songs: Lyrics of the Affections and Nature, ed. Edmund H. Garrett (1895)
Love
The streams that wind amid the hills
And lost in pleasure slowly roam,
While their deep joy the valley fills,--
Even these will leave their mountain home;
So may it, Love! with others be,
But I will never wend from thee.
The leaf forsakes the parent spray,
The blossom quits the stem as fast;
The rose-enamour'd bird will stray
And leave his eglantine at last:
So may it, Love! with others be,
But I will never wend from thee.
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Darley, George. “Sylvia's Song.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/darley/4/.
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Darley, George. “Sylvia's Song.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/darley/4/.
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