Request (HERMAN HESSE)

15 Oct Request (HERMAN HESSE)

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Request

When you give me your little hand,
Your hand that says so many unsaid things,
Have I ever asked you then,
If you love me?

For I do not want you to love me,
I only want to know that you are near
And that sometimes, mutely and quietly,
You give me your hand.

Poems
HERMAN HESSE

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