When April bends above me
And finds me fast asleep
Dust need not keep the secret
A live heart died to keep.
...
Strephon kissed me in the spring,
Robin in the fall,
But Colin only looked at me
And never kissed at all.
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There! See the line of lights,
A chain of stars down either side the street --
Why can't you lift the chain and give it to me,
A necklace for my throat? I'd twist it round
...
I
I cannot heed the words they say,
The lights grow far away and dim,
...
Willow in your April gown
Delicate and gleaming,
Do you mind in years gone by
All my dreaming?
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I shall bury my weary Love
Beneath a tree,
In the forest tall and black
Where none can see.
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If I could have your arms tonight-
But half the world and the broken sea
Lie between you and me.
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Look back with longing eyes and know that I will follow,
Lift me up in your love as a light wind lifts a swallow,
Let our flight be far in sun or windy rain--
But what if I heard my first love calling me again?
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Peace flows into me
As the tide to the pool by the shore;
It is mine forevermore,
It ebbs not back like the sea.
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