<h3><SPAN name="Autumn_Song_1" id="Autumn_Song_1"></SPAN>Autumn Song</h3>
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They ask me—thy crystalline eyes, so acute,<br/>
"Odd lover—why am I to thee so dear?"<br/>
—Be sweet and keep silent, my heart, which is sear,<br/>
For all save the rude and untutored brute,<br/>
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Is loth its infernal depths to reveal,<br/>
And its dissolute motto engraven with fire,<br/>
Oh charmer! whose arms endless slumber inspire!<br/>
I abominate passion and wit makes me ill.<br/>
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So let us love gently. Within his retreat,<br/>
Foreboding, Love seeks for his arrows a prey,<br/>
I know all the arms of his battle array.<br/>
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Delirium and loathing—O pale Marguerite!<br/>
Like me, art thou not an autumnal ray,<br/>
Alas my so white, my so cold Marguerite!<br/></p>
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