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TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 2 by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON

First Line: WHAT GOOD IS THERE, AH ME, WHAT GOOD IN LOVE?
Last Line: WITH MINE OWN HANDS DRAG DOWN THE BURIAL STONE.
Subject(s): TUSCANY, ITALY;
What good is there, Ah me, what good in Love?
Since, even if you love me, we must part;
And since for either, and you cared enough,
There's but division and a broken heart?

And yet, God knows, to hear you say: My Dear!
I would lie down and stretch me on the bier.
And yet would I, to hear you say: My own!
With mine own hands drag down the burial stone.



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