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Esther Raab

Thus you will love me

Thus will you love me
and day after day rend your heart for me – 
for I will never
be your beloved;
since only on heights-of-sorrow
do we rest
and we will not descend
to the baseness of couches in rooms;
for I lie in wait still
beneath the warm eucalyptus trees – 
crazed with love.

1926

Thus you will love me

Esther Raab

Esther Raab

(Ottoman Palestine, 1894 - 1981)

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Thus you will love me

Thus you will love me

Thus will you love me
and day after day rend your heart for me – 
for I will never
be your beloved;
since only on heights-of-sorrow
do we rest
and we will not descend
to the baseness of couches in rooms;
for I lie in wait still
beneath the warm eucalyptus trees – 
crazed with love.

1926
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