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WORDS FOR AN OLD AIR by SARA TEASDALE

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First Line: YOUR HEART IS BOUND TIGHTLY
Last Line: FOR BEAUTY'S SELF TO BREAK.

Your heart is bound tightly, let
Beauty beware,
It is not hers to set
Free from the snare.

Tell her a bleeding hand
Bound it and tied it,
Tell her the knot will stand
Though she deride it;

One who withheld so long
All that you yearned to take,
Has made a snare too strong
For Beauty's self to break.



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