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LOVE SPEECHLESS by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

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First Line: I LOOK ON NATURE, AND MY THOUGHTS
Last Line: THE OTHERS TAKE MY BREATH AWAY.

I LOOK on Nature, and my thoughts,
Like nimble skaters, skim the land;
But when I watch my loved one near,
My thoughts are walkers in soft sand.

I am a man that sees a sky
Alive with stars that cannot rest;
My eyes are here, my eyes are there,
Above, and then below her breast.

Much like the summer's bee am I,
A thousand flowers before his eyes;
He, knowing each one's power to please,
No sooner settles than must rise.

I sit bewildered by those charms
That follow wave by wave all day;
When I would with one wave make free,
The others take my breath away.



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