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Love Is Cruel, Love Is Sweet

Thomas MacDonagh

Love is cruel, love is sweet, –

Cruel sweet,

Lovers sigh till lovers meet,

Sigh and meet –

Sigh and meet, and sigh again –

Cruel sweet! O sweetest pain!

Love is blind – but love is sly,

Blind and sly.

Thoughts are bold, but words are shy –

Bold and shy –

Bold and shy, and bold again –

Sweet is boldness, – shyness pain.