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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: anJ?live for you! Last night I faintly swept my lyre's chords beneath your casement; you drew aside the lattice, and some one then approaching, obliged me to retire. To-night I shall again thus lure you to your window. You will then receive these lines, and I will wait beneath for one, one single line, which Love perhaps may dictate, and Sorrow not deny. Osmyn. I Was not then deceived. My heart responded to those tones which your's alone could breathe. To-day they told me you were proscribed? pursued.? They said your life was forfeited.? They said, too, that Jumeli pleaded? pleaded for you to her father, and provoked the Disdar's rage. Happy Jumeli! Oh, Osmyn! your note was my salvation; for this night I purposed to break my vow, to fly to the Acropolis, and save your life. The effort now, I trust, is needless, and Ida was deceived. To Ida. It is true Ida?I am proscribed! pursued! I was observed loitering near the citadel the day you visited the Dis- dar's daughter; and tyranny and power can seldom want pretence for persecution. Hitherto an impenetrable disguise has enabled me to escape their vigilance j and I encounter risks in still remaining in Livadia; but he whom love and patriotism animates, is his own destiny. Stamati, generous and imprudent, has offered me asylum, but if I fall, I fall alone! All day I wander amidst these now melancholy shades that witnessed my growing passion?my only days of pure felicity. Soon as the sun declines, I hover near the spot thy presence hallows: then join the little band of patriots, whom the sympathy ef virtue, the sacred love of freedom, unite and consecrate; and then, veiled by the shades of night, I sleep amidst the mighty ruins of my country's former greatnessr?and when thy seraph image visits not my dream, the...