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A single flow'r he sent me, since we met.
All tenderly his messenger he chose;
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Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
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The same to me are sombre days and gay.
Though joyous dawns the rosy morn, and bright,
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The ladies men admire, I've heard,
Would shudder at a wicked word.
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Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.
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There's a place I know where the birds swing low,
And wayward vines go roaming,
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This, no song of an ingénue,
This, no ballad of innocence;
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Oh, I can smile for you, and tilt my head,
And drink your rushing words with eager lips,
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All her hours were yellow sands,
Blown in foolish whorls and tassels;
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Now it's over, and now it's done;
Why does everything look the same?
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My own dear love, he is strong and bold
And he cares not what comes after.
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If I don't drive around the park,
I'm pretty sure to make my mark.
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Love has gone a-rocketing.
That is not the worst;
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Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
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Helen of Troy had a wandering glance;
Sappho's restriction was only the sky;
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Such glorious faith as fills your limpid eyes,
Dear little friend of mine, I never knew.
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Lilacs blossom just as sweet
Now my heart is shattered.
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Death's the lover that I'd be taking;
Wild and fickle and fierce is he.
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Oh, I should like to ride the seas,
A roaring buccaneer;
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Oh, lead me to a quiet cell
Where never footfall rankles,
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Daily dawns another day;
I must up, to make my way.
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Because my love is quick to come and go-
A little here, and then a little there-
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Once, when I was young and true,
Someone left me sad-
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In April, in April,
My one love came along,
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So silent I when Love was by
He yawned, and turned away;
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When my eyes are weeds,
And my lips are petals, spinning
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Oh, both my shoes are shiny new,
And pristine is my hat;
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There's little to have but the things I had,
There's little to bear but the things I bore.
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The days will rally, wreathing
Their crazy tarantelle;
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Some men, some men
Cannot pass a
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They hurried here, as soon as you had died,
Their faces damp with haste and sympathy,
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How shall I wail, that wasn't meant for weeping?
Love has run and left me, oh, what then?
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Oh, is it, then, Utopian
To hope that I may meet a man
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The first time I died, I walked my ways;
I followed the file of limping days.
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Some men break your heart in two,
Some men fawn and flatter,
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Travel, trouble, music, art,
A kiss, a frock, a rhyme-
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Say my love is easy had,
Say I'm bitten raw with pride,
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And let her loves, when she is dead,
Write this above her bones:
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Lady, if you'd slumber sound,
Keep your eyes upon the ground.
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Woman wants monogamy;
Man delights in novelty.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way;
I'll not be left in sorrow.
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Half across the world from me
Lie the lands I'll never see-
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I know I have been happiest at your side;
But what is done, is done, and all's to be.
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I shall come back without fanfaronade
Of wailing wind and graveyard panoply;
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In youth, it was a way I had
To do my best to please,
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Joy stayed with me a night --
Young and free and fair --
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Sleep, pretty lady, the night is enfolding you;
Drift, and so lightly, on crystalline streams.
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They hail you as their morning star
Because you are the way you are.
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They say of me, and so they should,
It's doubtful if I come to good.
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Always I knew that it could not last
(Gathering clouds, and the snowflakes flying),
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Little white love, your way you've taken;
Now I am left alone, alone.
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I shall tread, another year,
Ways I walked with Grief,
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Leave me to my lonely pillow.
Go, and take your silly posies
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If I should labor through daylight and dark,
Consecrate, valorous, serious, true,
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Secrets, you said, would hold us two apart;
You'd have me know of you your least transgression,
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Because your eyes are slant and slow,
Because your hair is sweet to touch,
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Ghosts of all my lovely sins,
Who attend too well my pillow,
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We shall have our little day.
Take my hand and travel still
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Chloe's hair, no doubt, was brighter;
Lydia's mouth more sweetly sad;
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Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
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She's passing fair; but so demure is she,
So quiet is her gown, so smooth her hair,
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Lady, lady, should you meet
One whose ways are all discreet,
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This is what I vow;
He shall have my heart to keep,
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Here in my heart I am Helen;
I'm Aspasia and Hero, at least.
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My garden blossoms pink and white,
A place of decorous murmuring,
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I do not like my state of mind;
I'm bitter, querulous, unkind.
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Oh, let it be a night of lyric rain
And singing breezes, when my bell is tolled.
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Love has had his way with me.
This my heart is torn and maimed
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He'd have given me rolling lands,
Houses of marble, and billowing farms,
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Who was there had seen us
Wouldn't bid him run?
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A string of shiny days we had,
A spotless sky, a yellow sun;
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They laid their hands upon my head,
They stroked my cheek and brow;
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If you should sail for Trebizond, or die,
Or cry another name in your first sleep,
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The friends I made have slipped and strayed,
And who's the one that cares?
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If it shine or if it rain,
Little will I care or know.
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Needle, needle, dip and dart,
Thrusting up and down,
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No more my little song comes back;
And now of nights I lay
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With you, my heart is quiet here,
And all my thoughts are cool as rain.
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When I was young and bold and strong,
Oh, right was right, and wrong was wrong!
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I cannot rest, I cannot rest
In straight and shiny wood,
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And if, my friend, you'd have it end,
There's naught to hear or tell.
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He will love you presently
If you be the way you be.
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