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LOVE'S FINAL POWERS
There are strong powers of love that early years
Know little of.—All added force of being
Gives love new deeper tenderer eyes for seeing,
And love wins sweetness from a lifetime's tears.
All pangs and hopes and joys and trembling fears
Add strength to love. As life's black darkness grows
Love's firmer step through that murk darkness goes
And, dauntless, over the grave's brink Love peers.
Know little of.—All added force of being
Gives love new deeper tenderer eyes for seeing,
And love wins sweetness from a lifetime's tears.
All pangs and hopes and joys and trembling fears
Add strength to love. As life's black darkness grows
Love's firmer step through that murk darkness goes
And, dauntless, over the grave's brink Love peers.
There are strange powers of love that youthful days
Know little of. There is a love beside
Whose strength the passion of the ocean wide
Is like the ripples whispering in blue bays:
A love beside whose strength death's fingers wild
Are weak as pink soft fingers of a child.
Know little of. There is a love beside
Whose strength the passion of the ocean wide
Is like the ripples whispering in blue bays:
A love beside whose strength death's fingers wild
Are weak as pink soft fingers of a child.
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