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WHAT WILL LOVE DO? by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT

First Line: WHAT WILL LOVE DO WHEN LIPS ARE DEAD
Last Line: WHAT WILL LOVE DO?
Subject(s): LOVE;

What will love do when lips are dead;
When greetings, partings, all are said;
When lingering kisses eloquence
Is vain as Persian kings' expense;
All ashes overgrown with yew; --
What will love do?

This flame we feed by look and touch,
In death's eyes will it matter much?
The sense is now the spirit's lute.
If, sense destroyed, no substitute
Shall give love voice for song anew, --
What will love do?



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