Ae fond kiss, and then we sever! Ae fareweel, and
then for ever! Deep in heart-wrung
tears I'll pledge thee, Warring sighs and
groans I'll wage thee.
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Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt? May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agonized as in that hour left my lips; for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.
charlotte brontë