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 A LOVE-AGONY.

O an thou be, that faintest in such wise,

With love-wan eyelids on love-wanton eyes,

Fain of thyself! I faint, adoring thee,

Fain of thy kisses, fainer of thy sighs,

Yet fainest, love! an thou wert fain of me,

So an thou be!

Yea, lo! for veriest fainness faint I, Sweet,

Of thy spare bosom, where no shadows meet,

And small strait hip, and weak delicious knee!

For joy thereof I swoon, and my pulse beat

Is as of one that wasteth amorously,

So an thou be!

Shepherd art thou, or nymph, that ailest there?

Lily of Love, or Rose? Search they, who care,

Thy likeness for a sign! For, verily,

Naught reck I, Fairest, so an thou be but Fair!

E'en as he recks not, that hath limned thee,

So an thou Be!

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