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If women could be fair and yet not fond,
Or that their love were firm, not fickle still,
I would not marvel that they make men bond
By service long to purchase their good will;
But when I see how frail those creatures are,
I laugh that men forget themselves so far.
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Poem If women could be fair and yet not fond

 

Edward de Vere

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If I should be, where I no more can hear
Thy voice, nor catch from thy wild eyes these gleams
Of past existence, wilt thou then forget
That on the banks of this delightful stream
We stood together; And that I, so long
A worshipper of Nature, hither came,
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Of holier love. Now wilt thou then forget,
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Of absence, these steep woods and lofty cliffs,
And this green pastoral landscape, were to me
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