Life and Phantasy by William Allingham: With frontispiece by Sir John E. Millais: A design by Arthur H. Hughes and a song for voice and piano forte |
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LOVE'S GIFTS.
I
This dark-brown curl you send me, Dear,Shall save its freshness of to-day
In gentle shrine, when year on year
Have turn'd its former fellows gray;
So shall your image in my breast
With never-fading beauty rest.
II
What love hath once on love bestow'd,Translated in its dew of youth
To some remote divine abode,
Withdraws from risk of time's untruth.
Keeping, we lose; but what we give
Like to a piece of Heav'n doth live.
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