Love Will Wane by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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When your love begins to wane, / Spare me from the cruel pain / Of all speech that tells me so -- / Spare me words, for I shall know,

By the half-averted eyes, / By the breast that no more sighs, / By the rapture I shall miss / From your strangely-altered kiss;

By the arms that still enfold / But have lost their clinging hold, / And, too willing, let me go, / I shall know, love, I shall know.

Bitter will the knowledge be, / Bitterer than death to me. / Yet, 'twill come to me some day, / For it is the sad world's way.

Make no vows -- vows cannot bind / Changing hearts or wayward mind. / Men grow weary of a bliss / Passionate and fond as this.

Love will wane. But I shall know, / If you do not tell me so. / Know it, tho' you smile and say / That you love me more each day.

Know it by the inner sight / That forever sees aright. / Words could but increase my woe, / And without them, I shall know.

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