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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - The Lady`s Yes.
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" Yes !" I answered you last night ;
    " No !" this morning, Sir, I say !
  Colours, seen by candle-light,
    Will not look the same by day.

  When the tabors played their best,
    Lamps above, and laughs below —
  Love me sounded like a jest,
    Fit for Yes or fit for No !

  Call me false, or call me free —
   Vow, whatever light may shine,
 No man on your face shall see
   Any grief for change on mine.

 Yet the sin is on us both —
   Time to dance is not to woo —
 Wooer light makes fickle troth —
   Scorn of me recoils on you !

 Learn to win a lady`s faith
   Nobly, as the thing is high ;
 Bravely, as for life and death —
   With a loyal gravity.

 Lead her from the festive boards,
   Point her to the starry skies,
 Guard her, by your truthful words,
   Pure from courtship`s flatteries.

 By your truth she shall be true —
   Ever true, as wives of yore —
 And her Yes, once said to you,
   SHALL be Yes for evermore.
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