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1861–1929

LXXIX

Bliss Carman

How strange is love, O my lover! With what enchantment and power Does it not come upon mortals, Learned or heedless!

How far away and unreal, Faint as blue isles in a sunset Haze-golden, all else of life seems, Since I have known thee!

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LXXIX · Bliss Carman · Poetry Cove