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SONG by THOMAS CAMPBELL

Poet Analysis

First Line: OH, HOW HARD IT IS TO FIND
Last Line: "THAT'S SWEET -- EVEN WHEN WE SIGH ""WO'S ME!"
Subject(s): LOVE – NATURE OF; FALL;
OH, how hard it is to find
The one just suited to our mind;
And if that one should be
False, unkind, or found too late,
What can we do but sigh at fate,
And sing Wo's me -- Wo's me!

Love's a boundless burning waste,
Where Bliss's stream we seldom taste,
And still more seldom flee
Suspense's thorns, Suspicion's stings;
Yet somehow Love a something brings
That's sweet -- even when we sigh "Wo's me!"



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