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Then to meet the careless smile,
    Look on the altered eye,
See it on others dwell, and pass
    Herself regardless by.

And having drained the bitter dregs,
    All bitterness above,
Of slighted love—then to be told,
    'Twas but to try your love.

The heart that could bear this
    Must be of stone or steel;
The heart that broke not with such wrong,
    Was not made love to feel.

Alas! for her whose love
    Is fated thine to be;
Better the heart should break
    Than beat for one like thee.L. E. L.