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1. A Love Letter (continued)

   

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   Since by your achievements I have been decoyed.
   Your graceful comportment and lovely discourse
   The Godess Diana to love would seduce
   You are endowed with science and qualities rare.
   No pedigogue teacher with you I'd compare.
   Your qualifications are truly sublime
   With learning and talent your greatly refined
   You are gifted also with an eloquent genius.
   That brilliant and fluent, both noble and famous
   Those royal perfections that I have depict.
   Your carriage with rectitude, reason and wit.
   But if on such principle I should proceed
   My intended object would have disappeared
   My topic expounds from an unceasing flame
   That Cupid has deeply excited with pain
   But if you still be a true lover of mine
   My woes will abate, my pain decline.
   He is not on this earth of the masculine
   Another whom I would so freely embrace
   Dont think my expressions are stained with deceit
   For my heart has divulged every word I relate.
   I am your affectionate lover till death
   That ne'er will dissemble, disown or forget
   So now to conclude and my love to disclose
   Your letter direct it to Michael McEeon.

   (Poet Higgins, Clooncoose, Ballinamuck)

   

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Patrick Higgins

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Poet

   Address

   Clooncose, Co. Leitrim