“ Tell me not Now ”
Tell me not now, if love for love
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Thou canst return,—2
Now while around us and above
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Day’s flambeaux burn
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Not in clear noon, with speech as clear,5
Thy heart avow,6
For every gossip wind to hear ;7
Tell me not now !8
Tell me not now the tidings sweet
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The news divine ;10
A little longer at thy feet
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Leave me to pine.12
I would not have the gadding bird
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Hear from his bough ;14
Nay, though I famish for a word,15
Tell me not now!16
But when deep trances of delight
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All Nature seal ;18
When round the world the arms of Night
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Caressing steal ;20
When rose to dreaming rose says, “ Dear,21
Dearest ;” and when
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Heaven sighs her secret in Earth’s ear,—23
Ah, tell me then !24