| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | When He Who Adores Thee | | By Thomas Moore (1779–1852) |
| | | WHEN he who adores thee has left but the name | |
| Of his faults and his sorrows behind, | |
| Oh! say wilt thou weep, when they darken the fame | |
| Of a life that for thee was resign’d? | |
| Yes, weep, and however my foes may condemn, | 5 |
| Thy tears shall efface their decree: | |
| For Heaven can witness, though guilty to them, | |
| I have been but too faithful to thee. | |
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| With thee were the dreams of my earliest love; | |
| Every thought of my reason was thine; | 10 |
| In my last humble prayer to the Spirit above, | |
| Thy name shall be mingled with mine. | |
| Oh! blest are the lovers and friends who shall live | |
| The days of thy glory to see; | |
| But the next dearest blessing that Heaven can give | 15 |
| Is the pride of thus dying for thee. | | | | |
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