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MEDITATION by PAUL GERALDY

First Line: ONE LOVES AT FIRST BY CHANCE
Last Line: BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEGUN.
Subject(s): LOVE; MEDITATION;
One loves at first by chance,
As a game, through curiosity,
Through having surmised in a glance
Possibility.

As in yourself, at bottom,
Your love is placed,
If someone loves you, you love her
Because you admire her taste.

For the love of love a partnership
In all things you affect,
And before you know it, you're talking
The lovers' dialect.

And from saying them often, the phrases
Automatically run—
And then, my God! you love her
Because you have begun.



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