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<h2> DENIAL </h2>
<p>But is it so that I must never kiss<br/>
Thee on the brow, or smooth thy silken hair?<br/>
Never close down thine eyelids with Love’s prayer,<br/>
Or fold my arms about my new-found bliss?<br/>
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Must I unto the courses of my age<br/>
Worship afar, lest haply I profane<br/>
The temple that is now my holy fane,<br/>
For which my song is given as a gage?<br/>
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Shall I who cry to all, “Come not within<br/>
The bounds where I my lady have enshrined;<br/>
I am her cavalier”; shall I not win<br/>
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One dear caress, the rich exchequer find<br/>
Of thy soft cheek? If thou command, my lips<br/>
Shall find surcease but at thy fingertips.<br/></p>
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