When We Forget

When We Forget written by William Henry Davies

From "Love Poems" (1935)

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When we forget that Nature gives
   No other home to lovers than
The haunted house of Death -
   Let us then call our love immortal,
Nor think we waste our breath.

But love, still looking for a place
   To lean her head against, and sing,
Should never have her childish brain
   Vexed by a thought to cold and grave,
To turn her joy to pain.

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