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Sidney 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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