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Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon
The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.
New beginnings and new shoots
Spring again from hidden roots
Pull or stab or cut or burn,
Love must ever yet return.
Fairies and Fusiliers (1917)
Love is a universal migraine.
A bright stain on the vision
Blotting out reason.
I do not love the Sabbath,
The soapsuds and the starch,
The troops of solemn people
Who to Salvation march.
Country Sentiment (1920)
Then all you lovers have good heed
Vex not young Love in word or deed:
Love never leaves an unpaid debt,
He will not pardon nor forget.
Country Sentiment (1920)
Lovers to-day and for all time
Preserve the meaning of my rhyme:
Love is not kindly nor yet grim
But does to you as you to him.
Country Sentiment (1920)
Fear in your heart cries to the loving-cup:
Sorrow to sorrow as the sparks fly upward.
The log groans and confesses
There is one story and one story only.
Down, wanton, down! Have you no shame
That at the whisper of Love’s name,
Or Beauty’s, presto! up you raise
Your angry head and stand at gaze?
Love, Fear and Hate and Childish Toys
Are here discreetly blent;
Admire, you ladies, read, you boys,
My Country Sentiment.
Country Sentiment (1920)