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Pain for profit
If they give not
If they care not
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A SONG IN SEASON.
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xiii.
Comes but of it,
If the lips that lure their lover's
Hold no treasure
Past the measure
Of the lightest hour that hovers.
xiv.
Or forgive not
Gifts or thefts for grace or guerdon,
Love that misses
Fruit of kisses
Long will bear no thankless burden.
xv.
Though love were not,
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