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Kismet

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Love came to her unsought,      Love served her many ways,     And patiently Love followed her      Throughout the nights and days.     Love spent his life for her      And hid his tears and sighs;     He bartered all his soul for her,      With tender pleading eyes.     Her scarlet mouth that smiled,      Mocked lightly at his woe,     And while she would not bid him stay      She did not bid him go.     But hope within him failed      Until he pled no more -     And cold and still he turned his face      Away from her heart's door.     *    *    *    *    *     Long were the days she watched      For one who never came; -     Through sleepless nights her white lips bore      The burden of a name.

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