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Let's contend no more, Love, / Strive nor weep: / All be as before, Love, / -- Only sleep!
What so wild as words are? / I and thou / In debate, as birds are, / Hawk on bough!
See the creature stalking / While we speak! / Hush and hide the talking, / Cheek on cheek!
What so false as truth is, / False to thee? / Where the serpent's tooth is / Shun the tree --
Where the apple reddens / Never pry -- / Lest we lose our Edens, / Eve and I.
Be a god and hold me / With a charm! / Be a man and fold me / With thine arm!
Teach me, only teach, Love! / As I ought / I will speak thy speech, Love, / Think thy thought --
Meet, if thou require it, / Both demands, / Laying flesh and spirit / In thy hands.
That shall be to-morrow, / Not to-night: / I must bury sorrow / Out of sight:
-- Must a little weep, Love, / (Foolish me! ) / And so fall asleep, Love, / Loved by thee.