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ET me be in loving nice,
Dainty, fine, and o’er precise,
That I may charm my charmàd
As tho’ I felt a secret
To lose what never can be lost,—Her faith who still delights me most!
So shall I be more than true,
Ever in my ageing new.
So dull habit shall not
Wrongly call’d Fidelity.
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (23 September 1861 – 25 August 1907) was a British novelist and poet who also wrote essays and reviews.
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