Pleasure! why thus desert the heart
In its spring-tide?
I could have seen her, I could part,
And but have sigh'd!
O'er every youthful charm to stray,
To gaze, to touch....
Pleasure! why take so much away,
Or give so much?
Pleasure! why thus desert the heart
Walter Savage Landor
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