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To Hannah By your brow which beauty brightneth, By those tones, where music swells, By that soul whose lustre shineth From those wild eyes liquid cell, Love not - or deeply love. Trust not lightly fond words spoken, Trust not soon affections smile; Many a heart hath thus been broken Cheated by the tempting guile As thou mayst sadly prove. Pour not forth affections gushing T'ill thou seest the proferred cup Lest that earth, thy spirits crushing Drink its waters up And they, swell not again. Trust thou not impassioned glances, Oft times false as bright are they. O'er the marsh, the meteor dances Thus to lure and thus betray To gloom and grief and pain. signed "Wm F S / Baltimore Sept 30, 1842"

Shouldst thou find thine thine Eden dreamings Met by dreams as pure and fair; Shouldst thy spirits' brightest teemings With anothers' visions share Then, Hannah, guardez vous. Stifle not the fond impression, Yet not wholly yield thine heart, Till thou findst the loved ones' passion Equal warmth with thine impart As full, as deep, as true. Shouldst it win thy spirit wholly To its wild idolatry Thou a staff, thou leanst on soley And thy love requited be Its strength do thou not impart. When thou lovest, love forever Stainless, timeless as the sun Death alone should dare to sever Twin hearts which Love hath linked as one Death is loves' funeral Knell. signed "H.D.McC / Pratt.Str."