Passion Flowers (Watson)/Love's Lyric

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"I love my Love! Do you ask me why?"

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Passion Flowers.

Love's Lyric.
I love my Love! do you ask me why?
 Go ask of the tree why it flowers,
Go ask the violet in its bed,
Go ask the roses, white and red,
 Why they deck the earth's fair bowers.

I love my Love! do you ask me why?
 Go ask of the stream, in its flowing,
Why the rapturous bound—the eager rush—
The ardent haste through the forests' hush—
 Why it leaps and sings in its going.

I love my Love! Oh! passionate heart,
 Keep still, lest thy fervid throbbing
Should rend the fragile Gate of Life,
And loose thee from this happy strife,
 Thy Love, of thee, quick robbing.

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