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A LOVE TEST, by                    
First Line: Sweet, do you ask me if you love or no?
Last Line: Believe me, darling, that your heart is mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Herlosssohn, Carl
Subject(s): Doubt; Love - Nature Of; Romance; Skepticism


SWEET, do you ask me if you love or no?
Soon will your answers to my questions show:
If in your cheeks hot blushes come and go,
Like rose-leaves shaken on new-fallen snow;
If tender sorrows in your heart arise,
And sudden teardrops tremble in your eyes;
If from my presence you would sigh to part,
Believe me, darling, I have touched your heart.

If when I speak your blue-veined eyelids sink,
And veil the thoughts you scarcely dare to think:
If when I greet you, hardly you reply,
And when we part, but breathe a faint "Good-bye!"
If your sweet face to mine you cannot raise,
Yet fear not so to meet another's gaze;
If all these things to make you glad combine,
Believe me, darling, that your heart is mine.





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