Another fine affirmation of love from the 20th century, though its austere author Edwin Muir (1887-1959), would have shunned any hint of public sentimentality on the approach to St Valentine's Day.
His Complete Poems were published by the ASLS in 1991.
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Why should your face so please me
That if one little line should stray
Bewilderment would seize me
And drag me down the tortuous way
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