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Mary Darby Robinson - Sonnet XLII: Oh! Canst Thou Bear
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Oh! can`st thou bear to see this faded frame,
Deform`d and mangled by the rocky deep?
Wilt thou remember, and forbear to weep,
My fatal fondness, and my peerless fame?
Soon o`er this heart, now warm with passion`s flame,
The howling winds and foamy waves shall sweep;
Those eyes be ever clos`d in death`s cold sleep,
And all of Sappho perish, but her name!
Yet, if the Fates suspend their barb`rous ire,
If days less mournful, Heav`n designs for me!
If rocks grow kind, and winds and waves conspire,
To bear me softly on the swelling sea;
To Phoebus only will I tune my Lyre,
"What suits with Sappho, Phoebus suits with thee!"
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