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"We 're all for love," the violins said. -- SIDNEY LANIER.
Do I love you? Do I love you? / Ask the heavens that bend above you / To find language and to prove you / If they love the living sun. / Ask the burning, blinded meadows / If they love the falling shadows, / If they hold the happy shadows / When the fervid day is done.
Ask the blue-bells and the daisies, / Lost amid the hot field-mazes, / Lifting up their thirsty faces, / If they love the summer rains. / Ask the linnets and the plovers, / In the nest-life made for lovers, / Ask the bees and ask the clovers -- / Will they tell you for your pains?
Do I, Darling, do I love you? / What, I pray, can that behoove you? / How in Love's name can I move you? / When for Love's sake I am dumb! / If I told you, if I told you, / Would that keep you, would that hold you, / Here at last where I enfold you? / If it would -- Hush! Darling, come!