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The Poetical Works of Ernest Christopher Dowson

Edited, with an introduction, by Desmond Flower

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115

TO CYNARA

Ah take these songs my love, long time forgiven,
Songs thou shalt never see,
Yet let them stand as a token that I am shriven,
As thou by me?
The wrong is old, perchance could I approach thee,
Eye speak to eye, who knows?—
It should fade as a mist—ah well, I cannot reproach thee—
He reaps who sows.
Thou lovedst me once and I am still thy lover
Fain of thee as of old
Fain of thy lips and thy locks that did ever hover
Twixt brown and gold
Ay woe is me