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Edith Nesbit - Love Well The Hour
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HEART of my heart, my life and light, 
    If you were lost what should I do? 
I dare not let you from my sight, 
    Lest Death should fall in love with you. 


Such countless terrors lie in wait. 
    The gods know well how dear you are: 
What if they left me desolate 
    And plucked and set you for their star? 


So hold my hand--the gods are strong, 
    And perfect joy so rare a flower 
No man may hope to keep it long, 
    And I might lose it any hour. 


So, kiss me close, my star, my flower, 
    Thus shall the future spare me this: 
The thought that there was ever an hour 
    We might have kissed and did not kiss.
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