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I think I should have loved you presently, / And given in earnest words I flung in jest; And lifted honest eyes for you to see, / And caught your hand against my cheek and breast;
And all my pretty follies flung aside
That won you to me, and beneath your gaze, / Naked of reticence and shorn of pride, / Spread like a chart my little wicked ways. I, that had been to you, had you remained, / But one more waking from a recurrent dream, / Cherish no less the certain stakes I gained, / And walk your memory's halls, austere, supreme, / A ghost in marble of a girl you knew
Who would have loved you in a day or two.