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Against Indifference

Charles Webbe

More love or more disdain I crave;
  Sweet, be not still indifferent:
O send me quickly to my grave,
  Or else afford me more content!
Or love or hate me more or less,
For love abhors all lukewarmness.

Give me a tempest if ’twill drive
  Me to the place where I would be;
Or if you’ll have me still alive,
  Confess you will be kind to me.
Give hopes of bliss or dig my grave:
More love or more disdain I crave.
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From The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250-1900 | Clarendon, 1919
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