But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.
(Sonnet 14 - If Thou Must Love Me, Let It Be For Nought)
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My childhood from my life is parted,My footstep from the moss which drew
Its fairy circle round: anew
The garden is deserted.
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And, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
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I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!
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There is no God,' the foolish saith, But none, 'There is no sorrow.' And nature oft the cry of faith In bitter need will borrow Eyes which the preacher could not school, By wayside graves are raised And lips say, 'God be pitiful,' Who ne'er said, 'God be praised.'
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