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I Want to Die While You Love Me

by Georgia Douglas Johnson

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I want to die while you love me, While yet you hold me fair, While laughter lies upon my lips And lights are in my hair.

I want to die while you love me And bear to that still bed Your kisses⁠—turbulent, unspent, To warm me when I’m dead.

I want to die while you love me Oh, who would care to live, ’Til love has nothing more to ask And nothing more to give.

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