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A MAIDEN'S PLEDGE (SONG) by THOMAS HARDY

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First Line: I DO NOT WISH TO WIN YOUR VOW
Last Line: SHALL COME, AND YOU STAND WHOLLY MINE.

I DO not wish to win your vow
To take me soon or late as bride,
And lift me from the nook where now
I tarry your farings to my side.
I am blissful ever to abide
In this green labyrinth -- let all be,
If but, whatever may betide,
You do not leave off loving me!

Your comet-comings I will wait
With patience time shall not wear through;
The yellowing years will not abate
My largened love and truth to you,
Nor drive me to complaint undue
Of absence, much as I may pine,
If never another 'twixt us two
Shall come, and you stand wholly mine.



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