Do Not Love Me Yet

Music: Miss Noble. By Turlough O'Carolan. Sequenced at Ancient Music of Ireland.

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Do not love me yet, for I Am still a slender moon, A scimitar about the heart Too sharp to touch too soon. Before I'm touched I need to grow More full in golden light; I need to smile upon my earth And rule some patch of night. I need to know what roads and fields Lie in my domain And dull my brand new ecstasies With sophomoric pain. I need the love of some blank boy As cold and dark as me, That we might grope in ignorance And fear of what might be. And then when I'm a silver bowl And know what I can hold, Then, then, perhaps, we could try love If you are not too old.