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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
YOUR QUESTION, by GEORGE ROBERTS (19TH CENTURY)
First Line: You ask me, sweetheart, to avow
Last Line: To be -- just what you are to me.
First Line: You ask me, sweetheart, to avow
Last Line: To be -- just what you are to me.
YOU ask me, sweetheart, to avow
What charm in you I most adore,
But how can I discriminate
From your innumerable store.
Yet 'tis not all you really are,
Nor yet what I might wish to see,
But an ideal far above
I worship -- what you wish to be.
'Then pray,' you answer, 'tell me now
What 'tis I most desire to be.'
Dear heart, your fondest dreams aspire
To be -- just what you are to me.
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