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LOVE'S CYNICISM, by                    
First Line: Wisely you smile at love's sad corollary
Last Line: Frail hours with sentiment; think this, and smile.
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Romance; Sorrow; Sadness


WISELY you smile at love's sad corollary;
It is more wise to smile when hearts are broken,
Lest real griefs—become imaginary—
Breed morbid phantoms. It is best to reckon
Past years but as the pages of romance,
Past selves as quaint, fantastic characters,
Given reality of passion once,
Now too remote for retrospective tears.
Think then of the white lilies that we drew
From shadowed waters of the still lagoon,
The well-remembered fragrance, and the few
Dark willows drawn across the falling moon
As fragments of a story read to while
Frail hours with sentiment; think this, and smile.





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