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Whether I loved you who shall say	A
Whether I drifted down your way	A
In the endless River of Chance and Change	B
And you woke the strange	B
Unknown longings that have no names	C
But burn us all in their hidden flames	C
Who shall say	A
	-
Life is a strange and a wayward thing	D
We heard the bells of the Temples ring	D
The married children in passing sing	D
The month of marriage the month of spring	D
Was full of the breath of sunburnt flowers	E
That bloom in a fiercer light than ours	E
And under a sky more fiercely blue	F
I came to you	F
	-
You told me tales of your vivid life	G
Where death was cruel and danger rife	G
Of deep dark forests of poisoned trees	H
Of pains and passions that scorch and freeze	H
Of southern noontides and eastern nights	I
Where love grew frantic with strange delights	I
While men were slaying and maidens danced	J
Till I who listened lay still entranced	J
Then swift as a swallow heading south	K
I kissed your mouth	K
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One night when the plains were bathed in blood	L
From sunset light in a crimson flood	L
We wandered under the young teak trees	H
Whose branches whined in the light night breeze	H
You led me down to the water's brink	M
The Spring where the Panthers come to drink	M
At night there is always water here	N
Be the season never so parched and sere	O
Have we souls of beasts in the forms of men	P
I fain would have tasted your life blood then	P
	-
The night fell swiftly this sudden land	Q
Can never lend us a twilight strand	Q
'Twixt the daylight shore and the ocean night	R
But takes as it gives at once the light	R
We laid us down on the steep hillside	S
While far below us wild peacocks cried	S
And we sometimes heard in the sunburnt grass	T
The stealthy steps of the Jungle pass	T
We listened knew not whether they went	U
On love or hunger the more intent	U
And under your kisses I hardly knew	F
Whether I loved or hated you	F
	-
But your words were flame and your kisses fire	V
And who shall resist a strong desire	V
Not I whose life is a broken boat	W
On a sea of passions adrift afloat	W
And whether I came in love or hate	X
That I came to you was written by Fate	X
In every hue of the blood red sky	Y
In every tone of the peacocks' cry	Y
	-
While every gust of the Jungle night	R
Was fanning the flame you had set alight	R
For these things have power to stir the blood	L
And compel us all to their own chance mood	Z
And to love or not we are no more free	A2
Than a ripple to rise and leave the sea	A2
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We are ever and always slaves of these	H
Of the suns that scorch and the winds that freeze	H
Of the faint sweet scents of the sultry air	B2
Of the half heard howl from the far off lair	B2
These chance things master us ever Compel	C2
To the heights of Heaven the depths of Hell	C2
	-
Whether I love you You do not ask	D2
Nor waste yourself on the thankless task	D2
I give your kisses at least return	E2
What matter whether they freeze or burn	E2
I feel the strength of your fervent arms	F2
What matter whether it heals or harms	F2
	-
You are wise you take what the Gods have sent	U
You ask no question but rest content	U
So I am with you to take your kiss	G2
And perhaps I value you more for this	G2
For this is Wisdom to love to live	H2
To take what Fate or the Gods may give	I2
To ask no question to make no prayer	B2
To kiss the lips and caress the hair	B2
Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flow	J2
To have to hold and in time let go	J2
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And this is our Wisdom we rest together	V
On the great lone hills in the storm filled weather	V
And watch the skies as they pale and burn	E2
The golden stars in their orbits turn	E2
While Love is with us and Time and Peace	K2
And life has nothing to give but these	H
But whether you love me who shall say	A
Or whether you drifting down my way	A
In the great sad River of Chance and Change	B
With your looks so weary and words so strange	B
Lit my soul from some hidden flame	L2
To a passionate longing without a name	L2
Who shall say	A
Not I who am but a broken boat	W
Content for a while to drift afloat	W
In the little noontide of love's delights	I
Between two Nights	I

Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)

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