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And in turn we make you ours; we say…
You and youth too;
Eyes and mouth too;
All the face composed of flowers; we say。
V。
All's our own; to make the most of; Sweet…
Sing and say for;
Watch and pray for;
Keep a secret or go boast of; Sweet!
VI。
But for loving; why; you would not; Sweet;
Though we prayed you;
Paid you; brayed you
in a mortar…for you could not; Sweet!
VII。
So; we leave the sweet face fondly there:
Be its beauty
Its sole duty!
Let all hope of grace beyond; lie there!
VIII。
And while the face lies quiet there;
Who shall wonder
That I ponder
A conclusion? I will try it there。
IX。
As;…why must one; for the love foregone;
Scout mere liking?
Thunder…striking
Earth;…the heaven; we looked above for; gone!
X。
Why; with beauty; needs there money be;
Love with liking?
Crush the fly…king
In his gauze; because no honey…bee?
XI。
May not liking be so simple…sweet;
If love grew there
'Twould undo there
All that breaks the cheek to dimples sweet?
XII。
Is the creature too imperfect;
Would you mend it
And so end it?
Since not all addition perfects aye!
XIII。
Or is it of its kind; perhaps;
Just perfection…
Whence; rejection
Of a grace not to its mind; perhaps?
XIV。
Shall we burn up; tread that face at once
Into tinder;
And so hinder
Sparks from kindling all the place at once?
XV。
Or else kiss away one's soul on her?
Your love…fancies!
…A sick man sees
Truer; when his hot eyes roll on her!
XVI。
Thus the craftsman thinks to grace the rose;…
Plucks a mould…flower
For his gold flower;
Uses fine things that efface the rose:
XVII。
Rosy rubies make its cup more rose;
Precious metals
Ape the petals;…
Last; some old king locks it up; morose!
XVIII。
Then how grace a rose? I know a way!
Leave it; rather。
Must you gather?
Smell; kiss; wear it…at last; throw away!
RESPECTABILITY。
I。
Dear; had the world in its caprice
Deigned to proclaim ‘‘I know you both;
‘‘Have recognized your plighted troth;
Am sponsor for you: live in peace!''…
How many precious months and years
Of youth had passed; that speed so fast;
Before we found it out at last;
The world; and what it fears?
II。
How much of priceless life were spent
With men that every virtue decks;
And women models of their sex;
Society's true ornament;…
Ere we dared wander; nights like this;
Thro' wind and rain; and watch the Seine;
And feel the Boulevart break again
To warmth and light and bliss?
III。
I know! the world proscribes not love;
Allows my finger to caress
Your lips' contour and downiness;
Provided it supply a glove。
The world's good word!…the Institute!
Guizot receives Montalembert!
Eh? Down the court three lampions flare:
Put forward your best foot!
LOVE IN A LIFE。
I。
Room after room;
I hunt the house through
We inhabit together。
Heart; fear nothing; for; heart; thou shalt find her…
Next time; herself!…not the trouble behind her
Left in the curtain; the couch's perfume!
As she brushed it; the cornice…wreath blossomed anew:
Yon looking…glass gleaned at the wave of her feather。
II。
Yet the day wears;
And door succeeds door;
I try the fresh fortune…
Range the wide house from the wing to the centre。
Still the same chance! She goes out as I enter。
Spend my whole day in the quest;…who cares?
But 'tis twilight; you see;…with such suites to explore;
Such closets to search; such alcoves to importune!
LIFE IN A LOVE。
Escape me?
Never…
Beloved!
While I am I; and you are you;
So long as the world contains us both;
Me the loving and you the loth
While the one eludes; must the other pursue。
My life is a fault at last; I fear:
It seems too much like a fate; indeed!
Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed。
But what if I fail of my purpose here?
It is but to keep the nerves at strain;
To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall;
And; baffled; get up and begin again;…
So the chace takes up one's life ' that's all。
While; look but once from your farthest bound
At me so deep in the dust and dark;
No sooner the old hope goes to ground
Than a new one; straight to the self…same mark;
I shape me…
Ever
Removed!
IN THREE DAYS
I。
So; I shall see her in three days
And just one night; but nights are short;
Then two long hours; and that is morn。
See how I come; unchanged; unworn!
Feel; where my life broke off from thine;
How fresh the splinters keep and fine;…
Only a touch and we combine!
II。
Too long; this time of year; the days!
But nights; at least the nights are short。
As night shows where ger one moon is;
A hand's…breadth of pure light and bliss;
So life's night gives my lady birth
And my eyes hold her! What is worth
The rest of heaven; the rest of earth?
III。
O loaded curls; release your store
Of warmth and scent; as once before
The tingling hair did; lights and darks
Outbreaking into fairy sparks;
When under curl and curl I pried
After the warmth and scent inside;
Thro' lights and darks how manifold…
The dark inspired; the light controlled
As early Art embrowns the gold。
IV。
What great fear; should one say; ‘‘Three days
‘‘That change the world might change as well
‘‘Your fortune; and if joy delays;
‘‘Be happy that no worse befell!''
What small fear; if another says;
‘‘Three days and one short night beside
‘‘May throw no shadow on your ways;
‘‘But years must teem with change untried;
‘‘With chance not easily defied;
‘‘With an end somewhere undescried。''
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