Young Love IV - Once

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Once we met, and then there came Like a Pentecostal flame, A word; And I said not, Only thought, She heard! All I never say but sing, Worshipping; Wrapt in the hidden tongue Of an ambiguous song. How we met what need to say? When or where, Years ago or yesterday, Here or there. All the song is - once we met, She and I; Once, but never to forget, Till we die. All the song is that we meet Never now - 'Hast thou yet forgotten, sweet?' 'Love, hast thou?'

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