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Tears, vows, and prayers win the hardest heart:
Tears, vows, and prayers have I spent in vain;
Tears cannot soften flint, nor vows convert;
Prayers prevail not with a quaint disdain

Nay, ask me not
I would not dare pretend To constant passion and a life-long trust
They will desert thee, if indeed they must
How can we guess what Destiny will send— Smiles of fair fortune, or black storms to rend What even now is ...