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Katharine Tynan - The Test
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Love has moods: and I am cold,
     Very cold ofttimes to Thee;
Fain to slip from Thy dear hold
     To my follies and be free.

Yet I love: Thou knowest all.
     I am Thine in heat and chill;
Thou, Thou hast my heart in thrall,
     All my life and all my will.

Thou, Immortal Lover, sure
     Knowest the way that lovers have,
Now so cold, afraid, unsure,
     Now afire with love and brave.

If I loved less it might be
     That the way was smoother, less
Of the heavenly joys for me
     And the cast-down bitterness.

I am cold -- be that Love`s proof! --
     And I burn -- the proof again! --
I would not be smooth but rough
     Lest the smoother love should wane.

Give me earth or Heaven -- and yet
     If it is Love`s test to swing
`Twixt the earth and Heaven still set --
     I -- I ask no other thing.
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