The Lost Mistress
Robert Browning
1812 to 1889
Track 1
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About your cottage eaves!
Mere friends are we,—well, friends the merest
All's over, then: does truth sound bitter
Keep much that I resign:
Your voice, when you wish the snowdrops back,
I will hold your hand but as long as all may,
Hark, 'tis the sparrows' good-night twitter
For each glance of the eye so bright and black,
Yet I will but say what mere friends say,
To-morrow we meet the same then, dearest?
Or only a thought stronger;
And the leaf-buds on the vine are woolly,
I noticed that, to-day;
May I take your hand in mine?
Though it stay in my soul for ever!—
As one at first believes?
Or so very little longer!
One day more bursts them open fully
—You know the red turns grey.
Though I keep with heart's endeavour,—
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