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<h3> AMOURS PASSAGÈRES </h3>
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Light loves and soon forgotten hates,<br/>
Heat-lightnings of the brooding summer sky—<br/>
Ye too bred of the summer's heat,<br/>
Ye too, like summer, fleet—<br/>
Ye have gone by.<br/>
Walks in the woods and whispers over gates,<br/>
Gay rivalries of tennis and croquet—<br/>
Gone with the summer sweet,<br/>
Gone with the swallow fleet<br/>
Southward away!<br/></p>
<p class="poem">
Breath of the rose, laughter of maids<br/>
Kissed into silence by the setting moon;<br/>
Wind of the morn that wakes and blows,<br/>
And hastening night that goes<br/>
Too soon—too soon!<br/>
Meetings and partings, tokens, serenades,<br/>
Tears—idle tears—and coy denials vain;<br/>
Flower of the summer's rose,<br/>
Say, will your leaves unclose<br/>
Ever again?<br/></p>
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