Versos English Algernon Charles Swinburne Xvi

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What they bid me? Well, this, nothing more--"Tell her this-- 'You are mine, I yours, though the whole world fail-- Though things are not, I know there is one thing which is-- Though the oars break, there's hope for us yet--hoist the sail! Oh, your heart! what's the heart? but your kiss!'