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Edwin Muir - In Love For LongEdwin Muir - In Love For Long
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I`ve been in love for long With what I cannot tell And will contrive a song For the intangible That has no mould or shape, From which there`s no escape, It`s not even a name, Yet is all constancy; Tried or untried the same, It cannot part from me; A breath yet as still As the established hill. It is not any thing, And yet all being is; Being, being, being, Its burden and its bliss. How can I ever prove What it is I love? This happy happy love Is seiged with crying sorrows, Crushed beneath and above Between todays and morrows; A little paradise Held in the world`s vice. And there it is content As careless as a child, And in imprisonment Flourishes sweet and wild: In wrong, beyond wrong All the world`s day long. This love a moment known for what I do not know And in a moment gone Is like the happy doe That keeps its perfect laws Between the tiger`s paws And vindicates its cause.
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