Poems (Sherwin)/A request

by Elizabeth Sherwin

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A REQUEST.

O give me but one friendly heart,
 Where I may safely fondly dwell,
Where vile deceit hath not a part,
 To break hope's pure enchanting spell.

No vain regrets shall then be mine,
 I will not grieve that joy flies fast,
But calmly unto Fate resign
 All else in life, till life be past.