GO, THEN--'TIS VAIN.

(SICILIAN AIR.)

Go, then--'tis vain to hover

Thus round a hope that's dead;

At length my dream is over;

'Twas sweet--'twas false--'tis fled!

Farewell! since naught it moves thee,

Such truth as mine to see--

Some one, who far less loves thee,

Perhaps more blest will be.

Farewell, sweet eyes, whose brightness

New life around me shed;

Farewell, false heart, whose lightness

Now leaves me death instead.

Go, now, those charms surrender

To some new lover's sigh--

One who, tho' far less tender,

May be more blest than I.

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