Love
The Young Lovers
From The House of a Hundred Lights (1900)
Love
I saw them kissing in the shade and knew the sum of all my lore:
God gave them Youth, God gave them Love, and even God can give no more.
I know not from the fading Rose with parted lips what whisper went.
I only know the Nightingale sang once again his old lament.
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Torrence, Ridgely. “The Young Lovers.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/torrence/4/.
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Torrence, Ridgely. “The Young Lovers.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/torrence/4/.
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