Part 2 — THE PASSION-FLOWER
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My love gave me a passion-flower. I nursed it well—so brief its hour! My eyelids ache, my throat is dry: He told me that it would not die.
My love and I are one, and yet Full oft my cheeks with tears are wet— So sweet the night is and the bower! My love gave me a passion-flower.
So sweet! Hold fast my hands. Can God Make all this joy revert to sod, And leave to me but this for dower— My love gave me a passion-flower.
Margaret Fuller [1871-