A Lover Since Childhood

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Tangled in thought am I,
Stumble in speech do I?
Do I blunder and blush for the reason why?
Wander aloof do I,
Lean over gates and sigh,
Making friends with the bee and the butterfly?

  If thus and thus I do,
  Dazed by the thought of you,
  Walking my sorrowful way in the early dew,
  My heart cut through and through
  In this despair of you,
  Starved for a word or a look will my hope renew:


  give then a thought for me
  Walking so miserably,
  Wanting relief in the friendship of flower or tree;
  Do but remember, we
  Once could in love agree,
  Swallow your pride, let us be as we used to be.

© Robert Graves