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MY SONG MUST NOT FORSAKE ME by ARTHUR W. UPSON

First Line: NOT MINE FROM THEE, LOVED HEART, TO FEEL SUCH TIDE
Last Line: MY SONG MUST NOT FORSAKE ME!
Subject(s): LOVE; PASSION;

NOT mine from thee, loved heart, to feel such tide
As this mine own doth pour thee;
Still shall I not go all unsatisfied:
Enough that I adore thee.

And if thou never wakest to my song
Not weakly shall it falter;
Proudly I pace Love's lonely courts along
Unto their inmost altar.

Ah, some day, if, within thy pleasant sleep
Faint echoes of me find thee,
White heart, may dreams be not too fair or deep
Or soothing to unbind thee!

Perchance even then, responding to that sound,
Thou'lt hail and overtake me,
Clearing the idle distance at a bound. ....
@3My song must not forsake me!@1



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