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SPEECH AND SILENCE.

What's spoken here none discloses;
Gone, like a breath, out of reach
Are the free, light words of each:
Our mouths are silent roses
About our budding speech.
I am the bard of the roses,
You, sweet one, are the dew,
Slipped out of heaven's blue,
Where Love, on his bed reposes,
Dreaming, dear heart, of you.