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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BECAUSE I LOVE YOU, by MURRAY L. MARSHALL
First Line: It is because I love you I am sad
Last Line: And I be poor -- were you not cause for living.
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Nature Of; Sorrow; Sadness
First Line: It is because I love you I am sad
Last Line: And I be poor -- were you not cause for living.
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Nature Of; Sorrow; Sadness
It is because I love you I am sad
And hold the hours of my lonely grief
Apart from Time -- the one inconstant thief
Whose foul conniving makes the happy mad.
It is because I love you I am glad
Beyond all measure when the sweet relief
That is yourself comes back to me. Though brief
Our trysts, ours are the sweetest ever had.
Because I love you I return to give
Such riches as Love's storehouse may possess,
In every new and fond togetherness.
So happy have I now become in giving
That all my wealth would leak out through a sieve
And I be poor -- were you not cause for living.
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