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A week ago only a little week	A
it seems so much much longer though that day	B
is every morning still my yesterday	B
as all my life 'twill be my yesterday	B
for all my life is morrow to my love	C
Oh fortunate morrow Oh sweet happy love	C
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A week ago and I am almost glad	D
to have him now gone for this little while	E
that I may think of him and tell myself	F
what to be his means now that I am his	G
and know if mine is love enough for him	H
and make myself believe it all is true	I
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A week ago and it seems like a life	J
and I have not yet learned to know myself	F
I am so other than I was so strange	K
grown younger and grown older all in one	L
and I am not so sad and not so gay	B
and I think nothing only hear him think	M
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That morning waking I remembered him	H
Will he be here to day he often comes	N
and is it for my sake or to kill time	O
and wondering Will he come I chose the dress	P
he seemed to like the best and hoped for him	H
and did not think I could quite love him yet	Q
And did I love him then with all my heart	R
or did I wait until he held my hands	S
and spoke Say shall it be and kissed my brow	T
and I looked at him and he knew it all	U
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And did I love him from the day we met	Q
but I more gladly danced with some one else	V
who waltzed more smoothly and was merrier	W
and did I love him when he first came here	X
but I more gladly talked with some one else	V
whose words were readier and who sought me more	Y
When did I love him How did it begin	Z
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The small green spikes of snowdrops in the spring	A2
are there one morning ere you think of them	B2
still we may tell what morning they pierced up	C2
June rosebuds stir and open stealthily	U
and every new blown rose is a surprise	D2
still we can date the day when one unclosed	Q
but how can I tell when my love began	E2
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Oh was it like the young pale twilight star	F2
that quietly breaks on the vacant sky	G2
is sudden there and perfect while you watch	H2
and though you watch you have not seen it dawn	I2
the star that only waited and awoke	J2
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But he knows when he loved me for he says	K2
the first time we had met he told a friend	Q
The sweetest dewy daisy of a girl	U
but not the solid stuff to make a wife	J
and afterwards the first time he was here	X
when I had slipped away into our field	Q
to watch alone for sunset brightening on	L2
and heard them calling me he says he stood	Q
and saw me come along the coppice walk	M2
beneath the green and sparkling arch of boughs	N2
and while he watched the yellow lights that played	Q
with the dim flickering shadows of the leaves	O2
over my yellow hair and soft pale dress	P
flitting across me as I flitted through	I
he whispered inly in so many words	P2
I see my wife this is my wife who comes	N
and seems to bear the sunlight on with her	W
and that was when he loved me so he says	K2
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Yet is he quite sure was it only then	Q2
and had he had no thought which I could feel	U
for why was it I knew that he would watch	H2
and all the while thought in my silly heart	Q
as I advanced demurely it was well	U
I had on the pale dress with sweeping folds	R2
which took the light and shadow tenderly	U
and that the sunlights touched my hair and cheek	A
because he'd note it all and care for it	Q
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Oh vain and idle poor girl's heart of mine	S2
content with that coquettish mean content	Q
He with his man's straight purpose thinking wife	J
and I but that 'twas pleasant to be fair	T2
and that 'twas pleasant he should count me fair	T2
But oh to think he should be loving me	U
and I be no more moved out of myself	F
The sunbeams told him but they told me nought	Q
except that maybe I was looking well	U
And oh had I but known Why did no bird	Q
trilling its own sweet lovesong as I passed	Q
so musically marvellously glad	Q
sing one for me too sing me It is he	U
sing Love him and You love him it is he	U
that I might then have loved him when he loved	Q
that one dear moment might be date to both	U2
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And must I not be glad he hid his thought	Q
and did not tell me then when it was soon	V2
and I should have been startled and not known	W2
how he is just the one man I can love	C
and only with some pain lest he were pained	Q
and nothing doubting should have answered No	X2
How strange life is I should have answered No	X2
Oh can I ever be half glad enough	Y2
he is so wise and patient and could wait	Q
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He waited as you wait the reddening fruit	Q
which helplessly is ripening on the tree	U
and not because it tries or longs or wills	Z2
only because the sun will shine on it	Q
but he who waited was himself that sun	L
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Oh was it worth the waiting was it worth	A3
For I am half afraid love is not love	C
this love which only makes me rest in him	H
and be so happy and so confident	Q
this love which makes me pray for longest days	B3
that I may have them all to use for him	H
this love which almost makes me yearn for pain	C3
that I might have borne something for his sake	D3
this love which I call love is less than love	C
Where are the fires and fevers and the pangs	E3
where is the anguish of too much delight	Q
and the delirious madness at a kiss	F3
the flushing and the paling at a look	G3
and passionate ecstasy of meeting hands	S
where is the eager weariness at time	O
that will not bate a single measured hour	W
to speed to us the far off wedding day	Q
I am so calm and wondering like a child	Q
who led by a firm hand it knows and trusts	H3
along a stranger country beautiful	U
with a bewildering beauty to new eyes	D2
if they be wise to know what they behold	Q
finds newness everywhere but no surprise	D2
and takes the beauty as an outward part	Q
of being led so kindly by the hand	Q
I am so cold is mine but a child's heart	Q
and not a woman's fit for such a man	E2
Alas am I too cold am I too dull	U
can I not love him as another could	Q
And oh if love be fire what love is mine	S2
that is but like the pale subservient moon	V2
who only asks to be earth's minister	W
And oh if love be whirlwind what is mine	S2
that is but like a little even brook	G3
which has no aim but flowing to the sea	U
and sings for happiness because it flows	I3
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Ah well I would that I could love him more	Y
and not be only happy as I am	J3
I would that I could love him to his worth	A3
with that forgetting all myself in him	H
that subtle pain of exquisite excess	P
that momentary infinite sharp joy	K3
I know by books but cannot teach my heart	Q
and yet I think my love must needs be love	C
since he can read me through oh happy strange	K
my thoughts that were my secrets all for me	U
grown instantly his open easy book	G3
since he can read me through and is content	Q
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And yesterday when they all went away	Q
save little Amy with her daisy chains	L3
and left us in that shadow of tall ferns	M3
and the child leaning on me fell asleep	N3
and I tired by the afternoon long walk	M2
said I could almost gladly sleep like her	W
did he not answer drawing down my head	Q
Sleep darling let me see you rest on me	U
and when the child awaking wakened me	U
did he not say Dear you have made me glad	Q
for seeing you so sleeping peacefully	U
I feel that you do love me utterly	U
no questionings no regrettings but at rest	Q
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Oh yes my good true darling you spoke well	U
No questionings no regrettings but at rest	Q
what should I question what should I regret	Q
now I have you who are my hope and rest	Q
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I am the feathery wind wafted seed	Q
that flickered idly half a merry morn	O3
now thralled into the rich life giving earth	A3
to root and bud and waken into leaf	P3
and make it such poor sweetness as I may	Q
the prisoned seed that never more shall float	Q
the frolic playfellow of summer winds	Q3
and mimic the free changeful butterfly	G2
the prisoned seed that prisoned finds its life	J
and feels its pulses stir and grows and grows	I3
Oh love who gathered me into yourself	F
oh love I am at rest in you and live	R3
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And shall I for so many coming days	B3
be flower and sweetness to him Oh pale flower	W
grow grow and blossom out and fill the air	T2
feed on his richness grow grow blo	G2