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Bliss Carman, et al., eds.  The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume II. Love.  1904.
 
IV. Wooing and Winning
The Exchange
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
 
WE pledged our hearts, my love and I,—
  I in my arms the maiden clasping;
I could not tell the reason why,
  But, O, I trembled like an aspen!
 
Her father’s love she bade me gain;        5
  I went, and shook like any reed!
I strove to act the man,—in vain!
  We had exchanged our hearts indeed.
 
 
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