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Valentines

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

Bashful, sip thy jasmines,

As the fainting bee,

Reaching late his flower,

Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower

And stole my heart away complete.

My face turned pale as deadly pale,

My legs refused to walk away,

And when she looked, what could I ail?

My life and all seemed turned to clay.

And then my blood rushed to my face

And took my eyesight quite away,

The trees and bushes round the place

As that I stood before.

My heart has left its dwelling-place

And can return no more.

– Ruhi