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I DO not wish to win your vow / To take me soon or late as bride, / And lift me from the nook where now / I tarry your farings to my side. / I am blissful ever to abide / In this green labyrinth-let all be, / If but, whatever may betide, / You do not leave off loving me!
Your comet-comings I will wait / With patience time shall not wear through; / The yellowing years will not abate / My largened love and truth to you, / Nor drive me to complaint undue / Of absence, much as I may pine, / If never another 'twixt us two / Shall come, and you stand wholly mine.