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MADRIGAL by STANISLAUS JEAN DE BOUFFLERS

First Line: WHEN FIRST BEFORE ME SHE APPEARED
Last Line: I NEVER WOULD HAVE LOVED AT ALL.

WHEN first before me she appeared,
Her beauty well I saw; but that alone.
But when her speech I heard,
How she was more than fair was known,
Her charms I praise, but more her mind approve,
But never thought my soul she would enthral.
Had I foreseen how deeply I should love,
I never would have loved at all.



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