<SPAN name="SONNET"></SPAN>SONNET.<br/>
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Were I to die, you'd break your heart, you say.<br/>
Well, if it do but bend, I'm satisfied—<br/>
Bend and rebound—for hearts are temper-tried,<br/>
Mild steel, not hardened, with the spring and play<br/>
Of excellent tough swords. It's not that way<br/>
That you'll be perishing. But when I've died,<br/>
When snap! my light goes out, what will betide<br/>
You, if the heart-breaks give you leave to stay?<br/>
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What will be left, I wonder, if you lose<br/>
All that you gave me? "All? A year or so<br/>
Out of a life," you say. But worlds, say I,<br/>
Of kisses timeless given in ecstasy<br/>
That gave me Real You. I die: you go<br/>
With me. What's left? Limbs, clothes, a pair of shoes?...<br/>
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