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Edith Nesbit - Flower Of AloeEdith Nesbit - Flower Of Aloe
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HOW can I tell you how I love you, dear?     There is no music now the world is old;     The songs have all been sung, the tales all told Broken the vows are all this many a year. Had we but met when all the world was new,     When virgin blossoms decked untrodden fields,     I had plucked all the buds that summer yields And woven a garland, worthy even of you. Or had I sung when rhymes were yet unwed,     And crowned their marriage in the songs I made,     I had laid them down before you unafraid, Meet offering to your grace and goodlihead. But all the dreams are dreamed, and no new heat     Touches life`s altars, all the scents are burnt,     The truths all taught and all the lessons learnt, And no new stars lead kings to kiss Love`s feet. For now in this grey world, of youth bereft,     Love has no throne, no sceptre and no crown;     His groves are hushed, his altars are cast down, And we who worship--we have nothing left. And yet--your lips ! The God has built him there     An altar which has known nor flower nor flame:     There may we burn the incense to Love`s name, There the immortal virgin rose be fair. So--since my lips have known but one desire,     And all my flowers of life are vowed to you--     For us, at least, the old world has something new: For me the altar--and for you the fire!
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