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Classic and Contemporary Poetry

FORTUNIO'S SONG by ALFRED DE MUSSET

Poem Explanation

First Line: IF YOU THINK I SHALL DECLARE
Last Line: HER NAME REVEAL.
Subject(s): LOVE - UNREQUITED;
IF you think I shall declare
Whose love I seek.
Not for a kingdom would I dare
Her name to speak.

But I will join you in a glee
If you think meet--
That I adore, that fair is she
As is the wheat.

I act but as my fantasy
My will doth stir;
And if she need my life, then I
May give it her.

The anguish that a love untold
Makes us deplore
I carry in my heart of old--
I can no more.

I love too deeply to declare
Whose love I feel;
And for my Love can die, but ne'er
Her name reveal.



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