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You and I together—Was it so?In the August weatherLong ago!Did we kiss and fellow,Side by side,Till the sunbeams quickenedFrom our stalks great yellowSunflowers, till we sickenedThere and died?
Were we tigers creepingThrough the gladeWhere our prey lay sleeping,Unafraid,In some Eastern jungle?Better so.I am sure the snarlingBeasts could never bungleLife as men do, darling,Who half know.
Ah, if all of life, love,Were the living!Just to cease from strife, love,And from grieving;Let the swift world pass us,You and me,Stilled from all aspiring,—Sinai nor ParnassusLonger worth desiring,Launa Dee!

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