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![]() | The Poetical Works of Robert Browning | ![]() |
43
THE LOST MISTRESS.
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All's over, then: does truth sound bitterAs one at first believes?
Hark,'t is the sparrows' good-night twitter
About your cottage eaves!
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And the leaf-buds on the vine are woolly,I noticed that, to-day;
One day more bursts them open fully
—You know the red turns grey.
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To-morrow we meet the same then, dearest?May I take your hand in mine?
Mere friends are we,—well, friends the merest
Keep much that I resign:
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For each glance of the eye so bright and black,Though I keep with heart's endeavour,—
Your voice, when you wish the snowdrops back,
Though it stay in my soul for ever!—
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Yet I will but say what mere friends say,Or only a thought stronger;
I will hold your hand but as long as all may,
Or so very little longer!
![]() | The Poetical Works of Robert Browning | ![]() |