by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

If It Must Be
Language: English 
If it must be
You speak no more with us,
Nor smile no more with us,
Nor walk no more with us,
Then let us take a patience and a calm.
For even now the green leaf explodes.
Sun lightens stone,
and all the river burns

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This text was added to the website: 2026-09-02
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