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. (W. H. Auden)

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.

W. H. Auden

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