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W. H. Auden Quotes: How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.
         

How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.


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