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