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There should be no despair for
While nightly stars are burning;
While evening pours its silent dew,
And sunshine gilds the morning

If I should learn, in some quite casual way, That you were gone, not to return again— Read from the back-page of a paper, say, Held by a neighbor in a subway train, How at the corner of this avenue And such a street (so are the papers filled) A hu...

Should somebody one day knock at your
Announcing he's an emissary of mine,
Never believe him, nor that it is I;
For to knock does not go with my vainglory,

I think I should have loved you presently,
And given in earnest words I flung in jest;
And lifted honest eyes for you to see,
And caught your hand against my cheek and breast;

Why should I sing in verse, why should I frame These sad neglected notes for her dear sake
Why should I offer up onto her name The sweetest sacrifice my youth can make
Why should I strive to make her live for ever,
That never deigns...