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First Line: Now thou hast seen my heart. Was it too near?
Last Line: Thou saw'st my heart: and didst not love me less.
Subject(s): Love


Now thou hast seen my heart. Was it too near?
Didst thou recoil from the o'erpowering sight;
That vision of a scarred and seamed soul?
Ah! yes: thy gentle eyes were filled with fear
When looks and thoughts broke out from my control,
Bursting themselves a road with fiercest might --
Wide-opening secret cells of foulest sin,
And all that lurks in that dark place within!
Well, be it so, dear friend! it was but right
That thou shouldst learn where blossoms yet may bless,
And where for ever now there must be blight.
Riven with burning passion's torrent course,
Shattered and splintered all with sin's mad force --
Thou saw'st my heart: and didst not love me less.





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