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204. Song—Love in the Guise of Friendship

by Robert Burns

18th Century · Short · 8 lineslove

YOUR friendship much can make me blest, O why that bliss destroy! Why urge the only, one request You know I will deny! Your thought, if Love must harbour there, Conceal it in that thought; Nor cause me from my bosom tear The very friend I sought.

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