Advice To a Girl
by George Gordon, Lord Byron


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  1.   Never love unless you can
  2.   Bear with all the faults of a man!
  3.      Men sometimes will jealous be,
  4.      Though but little cause they see,
  5.   And hang the head as discontent,
  6.   And speak what straight they will repent.

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  7.   Men that but one saint adore,
  8.   Make a show of love to more;
  9.      Beauty must be scorned in one:
  10.   For what is courtship but disguise?
  11.   True hearts may have dissembling eyes.

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  12.   Men, when their affairs require,
  13.   Must awhile themselves retire;
  14.      Sometimes hunt, and sometimes hawk,
  15.      And not ever sit and talk—
  16.   If these and such—like you can bear,
  17.   Then like, and love, and never fear!

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