Oh, you are more desirable to me
Alan Seeger
1888 to 1916
Track 1
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To make my dearest memory of the thing
My will to make of you the rose-twined bowl
From whose inebriating brim my soul
Whose haunt the groves of windy Cyprus were,
Shall drink its last of earthly happiness.
Than how, before returning into fire,
Oh, you are more desirable to me
Than all I staked in an impulsive hour,
Making my youth the sport of chance, to be
For I think less of what that chance may bring
To prosper me and crown with good success
And in old times I should have prayed to her
Blighted or torn in its most perfect flower;
That is but now my ultimate desire.
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