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The Junkman And Other Poems :: by Richard Le Gallienne

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Sweet Lovers

(For Gwen and André)

Sweet lovers!

1

Don't you think I know

This is the hour—

The dawn's aglow,

The world's aflower,

Sweet lovers!

Sweet lovers!

7

Listen, were I you,

I'd be away

Across the dew,

This very day—

Sweet lovers!

Sweet lovers!

13

Swiftly comes the noon,

And then, next thing,

The night is soon—

Fly, wing to wing,

Sweet lovers!

Sweet lovers!

19

Waste no single minute,

The rest of life

Has nothing in it—

Fly for your life,

Sweet lovers!

Sweet lovers!

25

Mark the roses yonder,

How soon they fall;

Don't plan and ponder,—

You'll lose it all,

Sweet lovers!

Sweet lovers!

31

Kiss you while you may;

Love, like a bird,

Soon flies away—

Ah! take my word,

Sweet lovers!