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Christina Georgina Rossetti - No, Thank You John
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I never said I loved you, John:
  Why will you tease me day by day,
And wax a weariness to think upon
    With always "do" and "pray"?

You Know I never loved you, John;
  No fault of mine made me your toast:
Why will you haunt me with a face as wan
    As shows an hour-old ghost?

I dare say Meg or Moll would take
 Pity upon you, if you`d ask:
And pray don`t remain single for my sake
    Who can`t perform the task.

I have no heart?-Perhaps I have not;
  But then you`re mad to take offence
That don`t give you what I have not got:
     Use your common sense.

 Let bygones be bygones:
  Don`t call me false, who owed not to be true:
I`d rather answer "No" to fifty Johns
    Than answer "Yes" to you.

Let`s mar our plesant days no more,
  Song-birds of passage, days of youth:
Catch at today, forget the days before:
    I`ll wink at your untruth.

Let us strike hands as hearty friends;
  No more, no less; and friendship`s good:
Only don`t keep in veiw ulterior ends, And points not understood

In open treaty. Rise above
  Quibbles and shuffling off and on:
Here`s friendship for you if you like; but love,-
    No, thank you, John.
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