Song
Esther Mathews

I can’t be talkin’ of love, dear,
I can’t be talkin’ of love.
If there be one thing I can’t talk of
That one thing do be love.

But that’t not sayin’ that I’m not lovin’ —
Still water, you know, runs deep,
An’ I do be lovin’ so deep, dear,
I be lovin’ you in my sleep.

But I can’t be talkin’ of love, dear,
I can’t be talkin’ of love,
If there be one thing I can’t talk of
That one thing do be love.

— from: Immortal Poems of the English Language. An Anthology Edited by Oscar Williams. 447 British and American Masterpieces by 150 Poets. Pocket Books. A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. New York. 1952.

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