By The River

FLOW on,ye lays so loved,so fair,

On to Oblivion’s ocean flow!

May no rapt[160]boy recall you e’er，

No maiden in her beauty’s glow!

My love alone was then your theme,(https://www.daowen.com)

But now she scorns my passion true.

Ye were but written in the stream;

As it flows on,then,flow ye too!

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