The Lost Mistress
Robert Browning
1812 to 1889
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All's over, then: does truth sound bitter
As one ______ first believes?
Hark, 'tis the sparrows' good-night twitter
About ______ cottage eaves!
And the leaf-buds on the vine are woolly,
I noticed that, to-day;
One day more bursts them ______ fully
—You know the red turns grey.
To-morrow we ______ the same then, dearest?
May I take your hand ______ mine?
Mere friends are we,—well, friends the merest
______ much that I resign:
For each glance of the ______ so bright and black,
Though I keep with heart's endeavour,—
Your voice, when you wish the snowdrops back,
______ it stay in my soul for ever!—
Yet ______ will but say what mere friends say,
Or only ______ thought stronger;
I will hold your hand but as ______ as all may,
Or so very little longer!