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Florence (Stevie) Margaret Smith (Флоренс (Стиви) Маргарет Смит)


To the Tune of the Coventry Carol


The nearly right
And yet not quite
In love is wholly evil
And every heart
That loves in part
Is mortgaged to the devil

I loved or thought
I loved in sort
Was this to love akin?
To take the best
And leave the rest
And let the devil in?

O lovers true
And others too
Whose best is only better
Take my advice
Shun compromise
Forget him and forget her



Florence (Stevie) Margaret Smith's other poems:
  1. Deeply Morbid
  2. Our Bog Is Dood
  3. The Pleasures of Friendship
  4. Alone in the Woods
  5. Not Waving but Drowning


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