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Passion Flower
by Victor James DaleyChoose who will the wiser part,
I have held her heart to heart;
And have felt her heart-strings stirred,
And her soul's still singing heard
For one golden-haloed hour
Of Love's life the passion-flower.
So the world may roll or rest,
I have tasted of its best;
And shall laugh while I have breath
At thy dart and thee, O Death!