who are you / i love you

sing aloud / about love

when life is / at its low

for love is but / a hopeful dove

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succumb not / to the crow

whose croaks are / crestfallen

for all it knows / is cold sorrow

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like the flowers / with sapped pollen

cast me up to / the guillotine

i would rather / death than sullen

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for all my life / where have you been

i am searching / higher, lower

like these flowers / love grows unseen

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absence makes the / heart grow fonder