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1858–1924

POEM: FEAR

Edith Nesbit

If you were here, Hopes, dreams, ambitions, faith would disappear, Drowned in your eyes; and I should touch your hand, Forgetting all that now I understand.

For you confuse my life with memories Of unrememberable ecstasies Which were, and are not, and can never be;... Ah! keep the whole earth between you and me.

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