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A LOVE-SONG by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE

First Line: O TO THINK, O TO THINK AS I SEE HER STAND THERE
Last Line: BEING LORD OF HER LIFE AND HER HEART AND HER LOVE!
Subject(s): LOVE - BEGINNINGS;

O To think, O to think as I see her stand there
With the rose that I plucked, in her glorious hair,
In the robe that I love,
So demure and so neat,
I am lord of her lips and her eyes and her feet!

O to think, O to think when the last hedge is leapt,
When the blood is awakened that dreamingly slept,
I shall make her heart throb
In its cradle of lace,
As the lord of her hair and her breast and her face!

O to think, O to think when our wedding-bells ring,
When our love's at the summer but life's at the spring,
I shall guard her asleep
As my hound guards her glove,
Being lord of her life and her heart and her love!



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