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"L'Amitié est l'Amour sans ailes."
IP, as some sage poet sings,
Is chasten'd Love, depriv'd of wings,
Without all wish or power to wander;
Less volatile, but not less tender:
Yet says the proverbs"Sly and slow "Love creeps, even where he cannot go;" To clip his pinions then is vain,
His old propensities remain; And she, who years beyond fifteen,
Has counted twenty, may have seen How rarely unplum'd Love will stay;
He flies notbut he coolly walks away.
Charlotte Smith
Charlotte Turner Smith (4 May 1749 – 28 October 1806) was an English Romantic poet and novelist. She initiated a revival of the English sonnet,
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