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First Line: You say that you're afraid of love
Last Line: A brief regret that love passed by.
Subject(s): Fear; Love


You say that you're afraid of love.
But that's the plan love draws:
She makes you fear -- makes all your soul
Be tortured in a fruitless cause.

You meet, as we have met tonight,
Perhaps on some deserted shore.
You part, as we shall part one day,
To seek a soothing balm once more.

The balm is love, at work a-new:
Another face, another clime;
New flames, new hopes, new hearts to sere;
Another life, another time.

And I shall think of you, and you
Of me, with passing thought. We'll sigh,
Amid the pangs of rapture new,
A brief regret that love passed by.





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