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Poems (Henley)/If it should come to be

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4685073Poems — If it should come to beWilliam Ernest Henley
XLIV
If it should come to be,
This proof of you and me,
  This type and sign
Of hours that smiled and shone,
And yet seemed dead and gone
  As old-world wine:

Of Them Within the Gate
Ask we no richer fate,
  No boon above,
For girl child or for boy,
My gift of life and joy,
  Your gift of love.