Dear heart, why will you use me so?
James Joyce
1882 to 1941
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Dear heart, why will you use me so?
eyes that gently me upbraid,
Still are you beautiful—but O,
How is your beauty raimented!
Through the clear of your eyes,
Through the soft sigh of to kiss,
Desolate winds assail with cries
The garden where love is.
And soon shall love dissolved
When over us the wild winds blow—
But you, dear love, too dear to me,
Alas! why you use me so?
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