Dramatic Scenes With Other Poems, Now First Printed. By Barry Cornwall [i.e. Bryan Waller Procter]. Illustrated |
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THE ALL-SUFFICIENT.
You love the dark and I the fair.
You worship her, so dark and tall;
I love (how much I love) the small,
When all the shapely points are there,
Round and smooth, (kind Nature's care,)
And a walk that's like the waving air,
Or golden corn when winds are blowing,
And a voice like waters flowing;
An eye—what heed of blue or grey,
Or hazle, so all scorn's away,
And there's just a touch 'tween sad and gay?
Let the mouth be—Oh, a mouth
Such as when a rose looks South,
Gathering silver drops that fall
From the clouds, that over all
Swim, as swans swim in a lake,
With a glory in their wake.
You worship her, so dark and tall;
I love (how much I love) the small,
When all the shapely points are there,
Round and smooth, (kind Nature's care,)
And a walk that's like the waving air,
Or golden corn when winds are blowing,
And a voice like waters flowing;
An eye—what heed of blue or grey,
Or hazle, so all scorn's away,
And there's just a touch 'tween sad and gay?
Let the mouth be—Oh, a mouth
Such as when a rose looks South,
Gathering silver drops that fall
From the clouds, that over all
Swim, as swans swim in a lake,
With a glory in their wake.
You love; I love; then, what heed?—
If we love, and love indeed,
Nothing else, friend, do we need.
If we love, and love indeed,
Nothing else, friend, do we need.
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