4.

What must they feel whom no false vision

But truest, tenderest Passion warmed?

Sincere, but swift in sad transition:

As if a dream alone had charmed?

Ah! sure such grief is Fancy's scheming,

And all thy Change can be but dreaming!

[MS. M. First published, Childe Harold, 1814 (Seventh Edition).]

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