"Never Give All The Heart"

Never

  Give  All  the  Heart,

 for  Love

Will   Hardly  seem  worth  Thinking  of

To  Passionate  Women  if  it  seem

Certain,  and  they  Never  Dream

That  it  Fades  out  from  Kiss  to Kiss; 

For  Everything  that's  Lovely is

But a Brief,

  Dreamy, Kind

 Delight.

O

Never

Give the Heart Outright,

For they,  all  Smooth  Lips  can  Say, 

Have Given  their  Hearts  Up  to Play.

And  Who  could  Play it  Well  enough

If  Deaf  and  dumb

  and  Blind  with Love?

He

 that  Made  This 

Knows  all  the  Cost,

For  he Gave

All  his  Heart

and

Lost.

~W B  Yeats

~Beannaichte'

4 February, 2013

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