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THE COQUETTE by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE

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First Line: YEARN THOU MAY'ST
Last Line: AND WILL.

Yearn thou may'st:
Thou shalt not see
My wasting love
For thee.

Lean thy tresses;
Fair that fruit;
Slim as warbling bird's
Thy throat.

Peep thou then:
Doubt not some swain
Will of thy still decoy
Be fain.

But I? In sooth --
Nay, gaze thy fill!
Scorn thee I must,
And will.



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