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I want more lives in which to love / This world so full of beauty, / I want more days to use the ways / I know of doing duty; / I ask no greater joy than this / (So much I am life's lover), / When I reach age to turn the page / And read the story over. / (O love, stay near! )
O rapturous promise of the Spring! / O June fulfilling after! / If Autumns sigh, when Summers die, / 'Tis drowned in Winter's laughter. / O maiden dawns, O wifely noons, / O siren sweet, sweet nights, / I'd want no heaven could earth be given / Again with its delights / (If love stayed near).