Young Love X - Love's Poor

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Yea, love, I know, and I would have it thus, I know that not for us Is springtide Passion with his fire and flowers, I know this love of ours Lives not, nor yet may live, By the dear food that lips and hands can give. Not, Love, that we in some high dream despise The common lover's common Paradise; Ah, God, if Thou and I But one short hour their blessedness might try, How could we poor ones teach Those happy ones who half forget them rich: For if we thus endure, 'Tis only, love, because we are so poor.

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