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If I think of your soul,
I see Your body's beauty; and then I pray to your body again,
And your soul answers me
So to possess you whole,

Bright eyes, sweet lips, with many fevers fill The young blood, running wildly, as it must;
But lips and eyes beget a strange distrust
Electric fingers send the sudden thrill Through senses unsubservient to the will;
The flames die ...

For giving me desire,
An eager thirst, a burning ardent fire,
A virgin infant flame,
A love with which into the world I came,

Thou, who dost dwell alone; Thou, who dost know thine own; Thou, to whom all are known, From the cradle to the grave,-- Save,
O, save
From the world's temptations; From tribulations; From that fierce anguish Wherein we languish; From tha...

In the green morningI wanted to be a heart
a heart
And in the ripe eveningI wanted to be a nightingale
A nightingale

Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame ;
It is the reflex of our earthly frame,
That takes its meaning from the nobler part,
And but translates the language of the heart