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Love-Doubt.

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Yearning upon the faint rose-curves that flit     About her child-sweet mouth and innocent cheek,     And in her eyes watching with eyes all meek     The light and shadow of laughter, I would sit     Mute, knowing our two souls might never knit;     As if a pale proud lily-flower should seek     The love of some red rose, but could not speak     One word of her blithe tongue to tell of it.     For oh, my Love was sunny-lipped and stirred     With all swift light and sound and gloom not long     Retained; I, with dreams weighed, that ever heard     Sad burdens echoing through the loudest throng     She, the wild song of some May-merry bird;     I, but the listening maker of a song.

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