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XIII. Doubt and Certainty.

What is it the future bears
In the womb of pale to-morrow?
Hopes or fears, or joys or cares,
Anguished griefs, or dull despairs?
Love me, love, through joy and sorrow.
What is it the present gives?
Brief delights we can but borrow?
Ours the present while it lives;
Love is love while it forgives;
Love me, love, through joy and sorrow.