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POET AND LADY by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

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First Line: THUS DO YO SIT AND BREAK THE FLOW'RS
Last Line: BY ALL ITS PAINS.
@3Poet@1. Thus do you sit and break the flow'rs
That might have lived a few short hours,
And lived for you! Love, who o'erpowers
My youth and me,
Shows me the petals idly shed,
Shows me my hopes as early dead,
In vain, in vain admonished
By all I see.
@3Lady@1. And thus you while the noon away,
Watching me strip my flowers of gay
Apparel, just put on for May,
And soon laid by!
Cannot you teach me one or two
Fine phrases? If you can, pray do,
Since @3you@1 are grown too wise to woo,
To listen I.
@3Poet@1. Lady, I come not here to teach,
But learn, the moods of gentle speech;
Alas! too far beyond my reach
Are happier strains.
Many frail leaves shall yet lie pull'd,
Many frail hopes in death-bed lull'd,
Or ere this outcast heart be school'd
By all its pains.



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