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INSENTIENCE by FRANCIS THOMPSON

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First Line: O SWEET IS LOVE, AND SWEET IS LACK!
Last Line: CALL THE TIRED LOVE BACK!
Subject(s): LOVE;
O SWEET is Love, and sweet is Lack!
But is there any charm
When Lack from round the neck of Love
Drops her languid arm?

Weary, I no longer love,
Weary, no more lack;
O for a pang, that listless Loss
Might wake, and, with a playmate's voice,
Call the tired Love back!



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