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Robert Browning - Never the Time and the Place
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Never the time and the place
        And the loved one all together!
    This path—how soft to pace!
        This May—what magic weather!
    Where is the loved one`s face?
    In a dream that loved one`s face meets mine,
        But the house is narrow, the place is bleak
    Where, outside, rain and wind combine
        With a furtive ear, if I strive to speak,
       With a hostile eye at my flushing cheek,
   With a malice that marks each word, each sign!
   O enemy sly and serpentine,
   Uncoil thee from the waking man!
       Do I hold the Past
       Thus firm and fast
   Yet doubt if the Future hold I can?
   This path so soft to pace shall lead
   Thro` the magic of May to herself indeed!
   Or narrow if needs the house must be,
   Outside are the storms and strangers: we
   Oh, close, safe, warm sleep I and she,—
   I and she!
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