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Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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Stanza III

“Your wretched lover in these lines complains;
         “From those dear beauties rise his killing pains.

“When will the hour of wish’d-for bliss arrive?
         “Must I wait longer?—Can I wait and live?

“Ah! bright Sultana! maid divinely fair!
         “Can you, unpitying, see the pains I bear?

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