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WRIT IN WATER by MELEAGER

First Line: IN HOLY NIGHT WE MADE THE VOW
Last Line: HAS YIELDED TO THE FIRST THAT SOUGHT HER.
Subject(s): ABSENCE; SEPARATION; ISOLATION;
IN holy night we made the vow;
And the same lamp which long before
Had seen our early passion grow
Was witness to the faith we swore.

Did I not swear to love her ever;
And have I ever dared to rove?
Did she not own a rival never
Should shake her faith, or steal her love?

Yet now she says those words were air,
Those vows were written all in water,
And by the lamp that saw her swear
Has yielded to the first that sought her.



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