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Alone And Cold

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Do not, O do not use me     As you have used others.     Better you did refuse me:     You have refused others.     Better, far better hope to banish     A small child than, grown old,     Hope should decay, his vigour vanish,     And I be left alone and     Cold, cold.     Ah, use no guile nor cunning     If you should even yet love me.     Hark, Time with Love is running,     Death cloud-like floats above me.     Love me with such simplicity     As children, frankly bold,     Do love with; oh, never pity me,     Though I be left alone and     Cold, cold.

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