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I long to know what I have to keep,
  I long to see
My love, that spinning coin, laid still
  And plain at the side of me,
For me to count—for I know he will
  Greatly enrichen me.

And then he will be mine, he will lie
  In my power utterly,
Opening his value plain to my eye
  He will sleep of me.
He will lie negligent, resign
  His all to me, and I
Shall watch the dawn light up for me
  This sleeping wealth of mine.

And I shall watch the wan light shine
  On his sleep that is filled of me,
On his brow where the wisps of fond hair twine
  So truthfully,
On his lips where the light breaths come and go
  Naïve and winsomely,
On his limbs that I shall weep to know
  Lie under my mastery.

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