Give me leave to rail at you, - <br />I ask nothing but my due: <br />To call you false, and then to say <br />You shall not keep my heart a day. <br />But alas! against my will <br />I must be your captive still. <br />Ah! be kinder, then, for I <br />Cannot change, and would not die. <br /> <br />Kindness has resistless charms; <br />All besides but weakly move; <br />Fiercest anger it disarms, <br />And clips the wings of flying love. <br />Beauty does the heart invade, <br />Kindness only can persuade; <br />It gilds the lover's servile chain, <br />And makes the slave grow pleased again.<br /><br />Lord John Wilmot<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/give-me-leave-to-rail-at-you-2/
