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London at Night

And Other Poems. By Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley
 

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STANZAS.

This Love—this deep, this mighty Love,
That makes my heart in music move,
To thee a dream, a trance may seem,
To me it makes all else a dream!
And those who love not—Dreamers all,
Round whom Indifference weaves her pall,
Her chilling pall, her darkening shroud,
That wraps all nature in a cloud!

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And oh! that smile, which doth exert
No magic o'er thy moveless heart—
It may seem nothing unto thee,
'T is more than all I wish to me!
This Love; this deep, this mighty Love,
Which makes my heart such transports prove—
To thee an empty dream may seem,
To me it makes all else a dream!