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LOVE NOW by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD

First Line: YOU WILL LOVE ME THE DAY I LIE DYING
Last Line: AT THE COLDNESS OF DEATH?
Subject(s): DEATH; LOVE - LOSS OF; DEAD, THE;
You will love me the day I lie dying.
Oh, love me then living,
While yet from a full heart replying,
I give to your giving.

What gain hath my lifetime of loving,
If you pass it all by,
To give me back treble my loving
In the hour I die?

All anguish, all maddest adoring
Will be vain in that day.
Though you knelt to me then with imploring,
What word could I say?

Oh, love me then now, that it quicken
My heart's failing breath!
Why wait, till to love is to sicken
At the coldness of death?



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