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YOUR QUESTION by GEORGE ROBERTS (19TH CENTURY)

First Line: YOU ASK ME, SWEETHEART, TO AVOW
Last Line: TO BE -- JUST WHAT YOU ARE TO ME.

YOU ask me, sweetheart, to avow
What charm in you I most adore,
But how can I discriminate
From your innumerable store.

Yet 'tis not all you really are,
Nor yet what I might wish to see,
But an ideal far above
I worship -- what you wish to be.

'Then pray,' you answer, 'tell me now
What 'tis I most desire to be.'
Dear heart, your fondest dreams aspire
To be -- just what you are to me.



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