V.

Have not thy unrelenting hands

Torn nature's most endearing bands?

Whate'er I hop'd from woman's name,

The ties of blood, the stranger's claim;

A sister-queen's despairing breast

On thee securely lean'd for rest;

On thee! from whom that breast has bled

With sharper ills than those I fled,

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