Love Ten Years Old

Love Ten Years Old written by William Henry Davies

From "Love Poems" (1935)

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Our love this day is ten years old.
What thoughts are in my sweetheart's mind?
'A kinder, sweeter tempered man,'
Says she, 'no woman could ever find.'

What says the World, that knows me less,
And judged me of another kind —
That robs a poor man of his dog,
And knows the man is old and blind!

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