<h2><SPAN name="page23"></SPAN><span class="pagenum"></span>COULEUR DE ROSE</h2>
<p class="poetry">I want more lives in which to love<br/>
This world so full of beauty,<br/>
I want more days to use the ways<br/>
I know of doing duty;<br/>
I ask no greater joy than this<br/>
(So much I am life’s lover),<br/>
When I reach age to turn the page<br/>
And read the story over.<br/>
(O love, stay near!)</p>
<p class="poetry">O rapturous promise of the Spring!<br/>
O June fulfilling after!<br/>
If Autumns sigh, when Summers die,<br/>
’Tis drowned in Winter’s laughter.<br/>
O maiden dawns, O wifely noons,<br/>
O siren sweet, sweet nights,<br/>
I’d want no heaven could earth be given<br/>
Again with its delights<br/>
(If love stayed near).</p>
<p class="poetry">There are such glories for the eye,<br/>
Such pleasures for the ear,<br/>
The senses reel with all they feel<br/>
And see and taste and hear;<br/>
<SPAN name="page24"></SPAN><span class="pagenum"></span>There are
such ways of doing good,<br/>
Such ways of being kind,<br/>
And bread that’s cast on waters fast<br/>
Comes home again, I find.<br/>
(O love, stay near.)</p>
<p class="poetry">There are such royal souls to know,<br/>
There is so much to learn,<br/>
While secrets rest in Nature’s breast<br/>
And unnamed stars still burn.<br/>
God toiled six days to make this earth,<br/>
I think the good folks say—<br/>
Six lives we need to give full meed<br/>
Of praise—one for each day<br/>
(If love stay near).</p>
<p class="poetry">But oh! if love fled far away,<br/>
Or veiled his face from me,<br/>
One life too much, why then were such<br/>
A life as this would be.<br/>
With sullen May and blighted June,<br/>
Blurred dawn and haggard night,<br/>
This dear old world in space were hurled<br/>
If love lent not his light.<br/>
(O love, stay near!)</p>
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