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LOVE'S WAYFARING by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE

First Line: DO YOU REMEMBER, LOVE
Last Line: WAND'RING?
Subject(s): LOVE;

DO you remember, love --
How long ago it seems --
When by the pebbled cove,
Our sweet, fair dreams
Took wing?
Alas, how long it is --
What wasted years between;
What untouched hours of bliss;
And unlived dream --
Time's sting!
Were not the high tides sweet!
The sails upon the stream --
The billows' bounding beat,
The sea-gull's scream
And swing.
What murmuring music rose
From zephyr's low-tuned chords,
To which in love's repose
Our hearts made words
To sing.
Ah, sweet, where is Love gone?
To what bourne, east or west,
Shall you and I alone
Bide his behest
Wand'ring?



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