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TO MADEMOISELLE by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER

First Line: THESE MY LAST SONGS ACCEPT I WHEREIN MY MUSE
Last Line: HE IS THE LEAST DECEIVING GOD OF ALL.
On sending her my last songs

THESE my last songs accept! wherein my muse
Paints love, who with me will no longer stay;
Vaunts glory, shade, which doth our hopes abuse,
Which one day gives and the next takes away.
The first a god for whom you nothing care,
The other doth your ardent soul enthrall;
Hortense, of love, for my part I declare,
He is the least deceiving god of all.



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