The yellow book: an illustrated quarterly (3.1894)

" Tell me not Now"

By William Watson

-"-"["'ELL me not now, if iove for love
1 Thou canst return,—
Now while around us and above
Day's flambeaux burn.
Not in clear noon, with speech as clear,
Thy heart avow.
For every gossip wind to hear ;
Tell me not now !

Tell me not now the tidings sweet,
The news divine;
A little longer at thy feet
Leave me to pine.
I would not have the gadding bird
Hear from his bough ;
Nay, though I famish for a word,
Tell me not now !

The Yellow Book—Vol. III.

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