| Padraic Colum (1881–1972). Anthology of Irish Verse. 1922. |
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| 168. This Heart That Flutters Near My Heart |
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| By James Joyce |
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| THIS heart that flutters near my heart | |
| MY hope and all my riches is, | |
| Unhappy when we draw apart | |
| And happy between kiss and kiss; | |
| My hope and all my riches—yes!— | 5 |
| And all my happiness. | |
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| For there, as in some mossy nest | |
| The wrens will divers treasures keep, | |
| I laid those treasures I possessed | |
| Ere that mine eyes had learned to weep. | 10 |
| Shall we not be as wise as they | |
| Though love live but a day? | |
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