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EXCEPTION by ELAINE V. EMANS

First Line: LOOK CAUTIOUSLY AND FAR AHEAD'
Last Line: AND WRETCHED, SIMULTANEOUSLY!
Subject(s): LOVE;

"Look cautiously and far ahead
Before you give your heart away,
And be not hasty," O I said, --
And always I have paused to weigh
The consequences when I read
The signs of love, till yesterday.

But yesterday I swear I had
No time to think how it would be
To love a serious dark-haired lad
Before he took the heart of me,
And left me weak and wildly glad
And wretched, simultaneously!



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