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You for a gala-greeting fit,
Grudging a loyal friend a bit,

Even, of youth's adorning!

Why do you haste, half out of breath?

Is it a mission of life or death?

Or do you fly from fervent arms

Reckless to clasp your blossomed charms,
Here in the April morning?

Oh, I am going-nobody knowing,

(Save you here who have asked the showing)
Hooded and cloaked, ere morn is o'er,
To leave a note at my sweetheart's door,
Here in the early morning.

Thus it will say: "I loved you well,
Far as my wayward heart would tell-
Loved you winter and summer through,
Mid white flakes or glistening dew:
But I must give you warning,
That this moment, as oft before,
There is another I love yet more:
This is a secret I pondered o'er,
Until this very morning."

Margerie, Margerie, unwed dame,
Toy not blindly with love's fierce flame!
Under the sweetest, purest wiles,
Under the best, as worst, of smiles,

Tragedies wait revealing!

Well do I know your words have sway

Born of the April's first-born day:

You do not mean the words you say-

Welcomer ones concealing.

With some fancy that fancy meets,
Brighten this day of droll deceits;
Barter you not with Love's Great Worth;
Sail on the sparkling waves of mirth-
Not through the depths of feeling!

Well do I know he will frantic be,

When he has conned this word from me:

Well do I know he will toil to find

Reasons that maybe would change my mind!

Well will he flaunt his scorning

Of that one that I hold more dear:

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