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Silent Love. (From The German)

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Who love would seek,
Let him love evermore
And seldom speak:
For in love's domain
Silence must reign;
Or it brings the heart
Smart
And pain.




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