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Thomas Sturge Moore

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For milkmaids and queens and gipsy-princesses
Dream and kiss blindfold or starve upon guesses.
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"Reason Enough", line 7; from The Sea is Kind (London: Grant Richards, 1914) p. 75.

 
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