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To M – (“I heed not”)

1. To M – (“I heed not”)

I heed not that my earthly lot

Hath — little of Earth in it —

That years of love have been forgot

In the hatred of a minute: —

I mourn not that the desolate

Are happier, sweet, than I,

But that you sorrow for my fate

Who am a passer by.