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VIII. To lose thee, sweeter than to gain




TO lose thee, sweeter than to gain
        All other hearts I knew.
'T is true the drought is destitute,
        But then I had the dew!

The Caspian has its realms of sand,
        Its other realm of sea;
Without the sterile perquisite
        No Caspian could be.

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