To A Pessimist

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Title:     To A Pessimist
Author: Alfred Noyes [More Titles by Noyes]

Life like a cruel mistress woos
The passionate heart of man, you say,
Only in mockery to refuse
His love, at last, and turn away.

To me she seems a queen that knows
How great is love--but ah, how rare!--
And, pointing heavenward ere she goes,
Gives him the rose from out her hair.

[The end]
Alfred Noyes's poem: To A Pessimist

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