Poems, Dialogues in Verse and Epigrams By Walter Savage Landor: Edited with notes by Charles G. Crump |
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XXVI.
[If mutable is she I love]
If mutable is she I love,
If rising doubts demand their place,
I would adjure them not to move
Beyond her fascinating face.
If rising doubts demand their place,
I would adjure them not to move
Beyond her fascinating face.
Let it be question'd, while there flashes
A liquid light of fleeting blue,
Whether it leaves the eyes or lashes,
Plays on the surface or peeps through.
A liquid light of fleeting blue,
Whether it leaves the eyes or lashes,
Plays on the surface or peeps through.
With every word let there appear
So modest yet so sweet a smile,
That he who hopes must gently fear,
Who fears may fondly hope the while.
So modest yet so sweet a smile,
That he who hopes must gently fear,
Who fears may fondly hope the while.
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