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RENUNCIATION by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE

First Line: I HAVE LOST YOU, MY FRIEND
Last Line: ME!
Subject(s): FRIENDSHIP; LOVE - LOSS OF; MAN-WOMAN RELATIONSHIPS; MALE-FEMALE RELATIONS;

@2I@1 HAVE lost you, my friend,—
But my heart was your advocate, is to the end:
I, a woman, love utterly you, and if you have left me,
Not yours the blame of it, mine be the shame of it, or @3indeed@1 you 've bereft
me!



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