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Joaquin Miller's Poems

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Miller, Joaquin (1837-1913)

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XXIX

“You shrink back angered? Well, adieu;
What, not a hand? What, not a touch?
My crime is that I love too much,
My crime is that I love too true,
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Love you, love you, not part of you—
Yea, how much less the rose that droops
In fevered halls where folly stoops!
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