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To My Wife (Author: Oscar Wilde)

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with a copy of my poems

1. 1] I can write no stately proem
   2] As a prelude to my lay;
   3] From a poet to a poem
   4] I would dare to say.
2. 5] For if of these fallen petals
   6] One to you seem fair,
   7] Love will waft it till it settles
   8] On your hair.
3. 9] And when wind and winter harden
   10] All the loveless land,
   11] It will whisper of the garden,
   12] You will understand.