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Marah

By Owen Meredith [i.e. E. R. B. Lytton]: 2nd ed.

Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton (1831-1891)

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[If thou art still a griefless girl or boy]

EPISODE

LOVE'S LABOUR LOST

HORACE AND LYDIA

TRAVELLING ACQUAINTANCES

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EPISODE

1

I love thy body better than thy soul.
I love thy beauty better than thy heart.
To me the part is dearer than the whole
Of all thou art.

2

For our lips naturally meet: but not
Our natures, not our thoughts. Far, far from thine
My spirit wanders lone. Thy heart hath got
No key to mine.

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3

And 'tis adultery I commit with thee:
For to another woman I am wed;
Tho', save in dreams, her face I shall not see
Till I am dead.

4

We miss'd each other in the porch of Birth,
And there took different ways: mine earthward set
And hers I know not whither. But on earth
We have never met.