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AFTER LOVE by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS

Poet Analysis

First Line: O TO PART NOW, AND, PARTING NOW
Last Line: STOOP TO BECOME YOUR FRIEND!
Subject(s): FAREWELL; PARTING;
O to part now, and, parting now,
Never to meet again;
To have done for ever, I and thou,
With joy, and so with pain.

It is too hard, too hard to meet
If we must love no more;
Those other meetings were too sweet
That went before.

And I would have, now love is over,
An end to all, an end:
I cannot, having been your lover,
Stoop to become your friend!



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