I WILL GIVE YOU A CHARM AGAINST SORROW

by: Elsa Barker (1869-1954)

WILL give you a charm against sorrow: smile at the kisses of Pain.

She is a sensitive lover and likes not to be flouted.

I could give you a spell for absence, to bring a loved one to you;

But I refrain, fearing you might love me.

I have love-philtres in one of my solar cupboards.

Should you put one of my powders in an angel's cup, you would dream you had found your counterpart behind the grating of eternity, and seek to tear it down.

The peddler of love-philtres is more dangerous than Lucifer, who also was a light-bearer.

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