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Go! you may call it madness, folly;
You shall not chase my gloom away!
There 's such a charm in melancholy
I would not if I could be gay.
--
To ———, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 

Samuel Rogers

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