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FHP^V THE Po]^VQ\ ESE
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" Guess now who holds thee ? "— *' Death," I said. But, there,
VICTOR^ CLOWNED
— ! —
Nevermore
VII
THE face of all the world is changed, I think,
beautiful indeed
YET, love, mere love, is
can be desert,
AND therefore if to love
Cheeks as pale
I am not all unworthy.
And hold the torch out, while the winds are rough,
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F thou must love -me, let it be for nought
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AND yet, because thou overcomest so,
God set
on all the notes
Cry, " Speak once more — thou lovest! " Who can fear
saw thy
borne
face,
XXVIII
MY letters
And
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yet they
all dea4 paper, mute and white
THINK of thee !
—my thoughts do twine and bud
I About thee, as wild vines, about a tree,
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And in hishea^t ^ny heai^t is
LOCKED
And in his life ^^y life
! —
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THE first time that the sun rose on thine oath
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! ;
^CXVIII
FIRST time he kissed me, he but only kissed
The fingers of this hand wherewith I write
OH, I will
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future will not copy fair
Thy flowers, and keep them where they shall not pine.
VIII. Keep violets for the spring, and love for youth.
Christina Rossetti.
XXIV. Dilectus meus mihi, et ego illi, qui pascitur inter lilia.
XXXII. Sweet be the bands the which true love doth tye.
Spencer.
XXXTII. Make but my name thy love, and love that still.
XXXVIII. That word, that kiss shall all thoughts else survive.
Shelley.
XL. But life's way is the wind's way, all these things
Are cut brief voices breathed on shifting strings.
Edwin Arnold.
XLI. Thy voice to me is wind among still woods.
Shelley.
Shelley.
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