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ANIMAE DIMIDIUM MEAE, by                    
First Line: In phantasy of thought and phrase
Last Line: Without the very half of me.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion


IN phantasy of thought and phrase,
Halting am I and slow of speech;
But does the work of many days
Weigh less with you than show of speech?
Do not things done and perfected
Mean more than many nothings said?

Out of the nothing that was mine
Behold a something made for you:
Is it so far to seek, the sign
That I have worked, not played, for you?
Would you have loved me more if I
Had talked—and let the days slip by?

Come back, come back! The yet young hours
Are old and grey with heed of you:
Black Care behind me grins and low'rs,
And mocks me with the need of you:
My weird is desolate to dree
Without the Very Half of Me.





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