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FRANCINE.

  Did I believe the angels soon would call    You, my beloved, to the other shore,    And I should never see you any more,  I love you so I know that I should fall  Into dejection utterly, and all    Love's pretty pageantry, wherein we bore    Twin banners bravely in the tumult's fore,  Would seem as shadows idling on a wall.  So daintily I love you that my love    Endures no rumor of the winter's breath,      And only blossoms for it thinks the sky  Forever gracious, and the stars above    Forever friendly. Even the fear of death      Were frost wherein its roses all would die.