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Restraint

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Dear heart and love! what happiness to sit     And watch the firelight's varying shade and shine     On thy young face; and through those eyes of thine--     As through glad windows--mark fair fancies flit     In sumptuous chambers of thy soul's chaste wit     Like graceful women: then to take in mine     Thy hand, whose pressure brims my heart's divine     Hushed rapture as with music exquisite!     When I remember how thy look and touch     Sway, like the moon, my blood with ecstasy,     I dare not think to what fierce heaven might lead     Thy soft embrace; or in thy kiss how much     Sweet hell,--beyond all help of me,--might be,     Where I were lost, where I were lost indeed!

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