To-night

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Love me to-night! Fold your dear arms around me--
  Hurt me--I do but glory in your might!
Tho' your fierce strength absorb, engulf, and drown me,
  Love me to-night!

The world's wild stress sounds less than our own heart-beat
  Its puny nothingness sinks out of sight.
Just you and I and Love alone are left, sweet--
  Love me to-night!

Love me to-night! I care not for to-morrow--
  Look in my eyes, aglow with Love's own light:
Full soon enough will come daylight, and sorrow--
  Love me to-night!
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  --BEATRICE M. BARRY, in the _Banquet Table_.

We can't to-night! We're overworked and busy;
  We've got a lot of paragraphs to write;
Although your invitation drives us dizzy,
  We can't to-night!

But, Trixie, we admit we're greatly smit with
  The heart you picture--incandescent, white.
We must confess that you have made a hit with
  Us here to-night.

O Beatrice! O Tempora! O Heaven!
  List to our lyre the while the strings we smite;
Where shall you be at--well, say half-past seven
  To-morrow night?