I have slept with you all night long while the dark earth spins with t…

Pablo Neruda
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I have slept with you all night long while the dark earth spins with the living and the dead, and on waking suddenly in the midst of the shadow my arm encircled your waist. Neither night nor sleep could separate us. ✨ Pablo Neruda (2008). Love Poems, p.19, New Directions Publishing
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I have slept with you all night long while the dark earth spins with the living and the dead, and on waking suddenly in the midst of the shadow my arm encircled your waist. Neither night nor sleep could separate us. ✨ Pablo Neruda (2008). Love Poems, p.19, New Directions Publishing

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