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Eros [They put their finger on their lip,]

by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1904

They put their finger on their lip,
    The Powers above:
  The seas their islands clip,
  The moons in ocean dip,
They love, but name not love.

Published in The Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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