LOVE'S BURIAL-PLACE[475:1]

Lady. If Love be dead—
Poet. And I aver it!
Lady. Tell me, Bard! where Love lies buried?
Poet. Love lies buried where 'twas born:
Oh, gentle dame! think it no scorn [5]
If, in my fancy, I presume
To call thy bosom poor Love's Tomb.
[[476]]And on that tomb to read the line:—
'Here lies a Love that once seem'd mine,
But caught a chill, as I divine, [10]
And died at length of a Decline.'

1828.

FOOTNOTES:

[475:1] First published in 1828: included in the Amulet, 1833, as the first of 'Three Scraps', and in 1852. The present text is that of the Amulet, 1833.

LINENOTES:

[Title]] The Alienated Mistress: A Madrigal (From an unfinished Melodrama) 1828, 1852.

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