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ALEXIS FELIX ARVERS
French author, poet and dramatist
(1806 - 1851)

One sweet, sad secret holds my heart in thrall;
  A mighty love within my breast has grown,
    Unseen, unspoken, and of no one known;
      And of my sweet, who gave it, least of all.
        [Fr., Ma vie a son secret, mon ame a son mystere:
          Un amour eternel en un moment concu.
            La mal est sans remede, aussi j'ai du le taire,
              Et elle qui l'a fait n'en a jamais rien su.]
      - Sonnet,
        translated by Joseph Knight in "The Athenoeum", Jan. 13, 1906
        [Love]

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