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- Let's contend no more, Love,
- Strive nor weep:
- All be as before, Love,
- —Only sleep!
- What so wild as words are
- I and thou
- In debate, as birds are,
- Hawk on bough!
- See the creature stalking
- While we speak!
- Hush and hide the talking,
- Cheek on cheek!
- What so false as truth is,
- False to thee?
- Where the serpent's tooth is
- Shun the tree —
- Where the apple reddens
- Never pry —
- Lest we lose our Edens,
- Eve and I.
- Be a god and hold me
- With a charm!
- Be a man and fold me
- With thine arm!
- Teach me, only teach, Love!
- As I ought
- I will speak thy speech, Love,
- Think thy thought —
- Meet, if thou require it,
- Both demands,
- Laying flesh and spirit
- In thy hands.
- That shall be to-morrow
- Not to-night:
- I must bury sorrow
- Out of sight:
- — Must a little weep, Love,
- (Foolish me!)
- And so fall asleep, Love,
- Loved by thee.
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