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As salt as mine, and hear the sighing years
That givers of such gifts as mine are, must
Re-sighing on my lihttps://read.99csw.comps renunciative
Through those infrequent smiles which fail to live
I will not soil thread•99csw.comy purple with my dust,
Beloved, I only love thee ! let it pass.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browningread.99csw.com
Nor breathe my poison on thy Venice-glass,
Nor give thee any love--which were unjust.
To let thee sitread•99csw.com beneath the fall of tears
Be counted with the ungenerous. Out, alas !
That this can scarce be right ! We are not pe九_九_藏_書ers,
So to be lovers; and I own, and grieve,
Can it be right to give what I can give ?
For all thy adjurations ? O my fears,