<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_42" id="page_42"></SPAN>{42}</span></p>
<h2><SPAN name="TO_RICHARD_LOVELACE" id="TO_RICHARD_LOVELACE"></SPAN>TO RICHARD LOVELACE</h2>
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<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Ah</span>, Lovelace, what desires have sway<br/></span>
<span class="i0">In the white shadow of your heart,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Which no more measures day by day,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Nor sets the years apart?<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">How many seasons for your sake<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Have taught men over, age by age,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">“Stone walls do not a prison make,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Nor iron bars a cage!”—<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_43" id="page_43"></SPAN>{43}</span><br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">Since that first April when you fared<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Into the Gatehouse, well content,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Caring for nothing so you cared<br/></span>
<span class="i0">For honor and for Kent.<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">How many, since the April rain<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Beat drear and blossomless and hoar<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Through London, when you left Shoe Lane,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">A-marching to no war!<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">Till now, with April on the sea,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">And sunshine in the woven year,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">The rain-winds loose from reverie<br/></span>
<span class="i0">A lyric and a cheer.<br/></span></div>
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