by Elinor Wylie (1885 - 1928)

Little elegy
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Language: English 
Our translations:  GER
Withouten you
No rose can grow;
No leaf be green
If never seen
Your sweetest face;
No bird have grace
Or power to sing;
Or anything
Be kind, or fair,
And you nowhere.

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