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Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow!
Faithless am I am save to love's self
alone.
Were you not lovely I would leave you
now;
After the feet of beauty fly my own.
Were you not still my hunger's rarest
food,
And water ever to my wildest thirst,
I would desert you--think not but I would!--
And seek another as I sought you first.
But you are mobile as the veering air,
And all your charms more changeful than
the tide,
Wherefore to be inconstant is no care:
I have but to continue at your side.
So wanton, light and false, my love, are
you,
I am most faithless when I most am true.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
From A Few Figs From Thistles
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