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TO NO ONE IN PARTICULAR by WITTER BYNNER

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First Line: LOCATE YOUR LOVE, YOU LOSE YOUR LOVE
Last Line: AND NEVER LOOK AWAY.
Subject(s): LOVE;

Locate your love, you lose your love,
Find her, you look away;
Now mine I never quite discern,
But trace her every day.

She has a thousand presences,
As surely seen and heard
As birds that hide behind a leaf
Or leaves that hide a bird.

Single your love, you lose your love,
You cloak her face with clay;
Now mine I never quite discern --
And never look away.



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