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Show LOVE. By Edmond Holmes. I love thee, dearest, for thine own dear sake, Not for the sake of love; for love to me Came in thy guise, and Dade my heart awake From dreams of love's delight to love of thee. Not for love's sake, but for thy very own Yet Love, immortal Love, Is well content That I should love hee for thyselt alone, Since thy sweet self Is love's embodiment, Not for love's sake I love thee, but for thine, I love my dream of love the vision iair That lured my footsteps to Love's altar shrine, And taught my heart to Kneel in hope and prayer; And gazing upward I behelii thy face. New "York Tribune. |