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How many smiles in the asking?—

Herein I can not deceive you;

My "yes" in a "no" was a-masking,

Nor thought, dear, once to grieve you.

I hid. The humming-bird happiness here

Danced up i' the blood … but what are words

When the speech of two souls all truth affords?

Affirmative, negative what in love's ear?—

I wished to say "yes" and somehow said "no";

The woman within me knew you would know,

For it held you six times dear.