Such Simple Love
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Such Simple Love

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 22, 20261 min
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Such Simple Love.

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whimper and the lover's voice, the worker's whisper and the sick child's call, knowing

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Such Simple Love. All night long I hear the sleepers toss, between the darkened window and the wall, the madman's whimper and the lover's voice, the worker's whisper and the sick child's call, knowing them all.

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I'd walk a mile, maybe, hearing some cat crying its guts out, to throttle it by hand. Such simple love I had. I wished I might, or God might answer each call in person and each poor demand. Well I'd have been better off sleeping myself.

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These fancies had some sentimental charm. But love without direction is a cheap blanket, and even if it did no one any harm, no one is warm.

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