Poems (Rossetti, 1901)/A Smile and a Sigh

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4552525Poems — A Smile and a SighChristina Georgina Rossetti

A SMILE AND A SIGH.
A SMILE because the nights are short!
And every morning brings such pleasure
Of sweet love-making, harmless sport:
Love that makes and finds its treasure:
Love, treasure without measure.

A sigh because the days are long!
Long long these days that pass in sighing,
A burden saddens every song:
While time lags which should be flying,
We live who would be dying.