< Street Cries (Lanier)

  “Hey, rose, just born
  Twin to a thorn;
Was’t so with you, O Love and Scorn?

  “Sweet eyes that smiled,
  Now wet and wild;
O Eye and Tear—mother and child.

  “Well: Love and Pain
  Be kinsfolk twain:
Yet would, Oh would I could love again.”

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