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GHAZELES: 6 by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES

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First Line: I'VE A FRIEND, A STAUNCH FRIEND; LISTEN, LISTEN, MARY, MINE
Last Line: WHERE BUT HERE, BESIDE ME? KISS ME, BLESS ME, MARY MINE
I'VE a Friend, a staunch Friend; listen, listen, Mary, mine!
There's none such wherever Phoebus winds his airy line;
When I rise at morn-time, -- ere the grass his dewy tears
Dries away, she meets me, beckoning oft with wary sign,
That I tread discreetly, while she shows how round about
With marigolds and violets she has pranked her dairy fine, --
That the milk, fresh steaming, may be sweeter to my lips,
Crowned with glowing blossoms, -- so too is it, faery mine!
When at eve out-wearied I approach, she brings me down
What her own white hands have pressed -- a flask of chary wine.
There it is, -- the nectar! where then is the Friend I mean?
Where but here, beside me? kiss me, bless me, Mary mine



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