A Verse - Part One

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I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,

or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,

in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

-Sonnet XVII, Pablo Neruda

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