Give me leave to rail at you, -I ask nothing but my due:
To call you false, and then to
You shall not keep my heart a day.
But alas! against my willI must be your captive still.
Ah! be kinder, then, for
Cannot change, and would not die.
Kindness has resistless charms;
All besides but weakly move;
Fiercest anger it disarms,
And clips the wings of flying love.
Beauty does the heart invade,
Kindness only can persuade;
It gilds the lover's servile chain,
And makes the slave grow pleased again.
