A Conceit

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Title:     A Conceit
Author: Edward Powys Mathers [More Titles by Mathers]

I hide my love,
I will not say her name.
And yet since I confess
I love, her name is told.
You know that if I love
It must be ... Whom?

From the Arabic of Ebn Kalakis Abu El Fath Nasrallah (eleventh century).

[The end]
Edward Powys Mathers's poem: Conceit

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