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A Song Of Love

Sidney Lanier

“Hey, rose, just born
Twin to a thorn;
Was't so with you, O Love and Scorn?

“Sweet eyes that smiled,
Now wet and wild;
O Eye and Tear-mother and child.

“Well: Love and Pain
Be kinsfolk twain:
Yet would, Oh would I could love again.”

(C) Sidney Lanier
01/01/2000


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