“And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen,
The maiden herself will steal after it soon.”

—  Thomas Moore

Ill Omens.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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Irish poet, singer and songwriter 1779–1852

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