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To the end of the trail

Hovey, Richard (1864-1900)

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VII
  
MAN AND CRAFTSMAN
  
MODELS
  
THE LAST LOVE OF GAWAINE
  
WHAT THOUGH YOU LOVE ME
  
HURT ME
  
FALSE TRUTH
  
LOVE AND PITY
  
LOVE'S SILENCE.

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LOVE'S SILENCE.

I do not ask your love as having rights
Because of all there is between us two.
Love has no rights, Love has but his delights,
Which but delight because they are not due.
The highest merit any man can prove
Is not enough to merit what Love gives,
And Love would lose its quality of love,
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Lived it for any cause but that it lives.
Therefore I do not plead my gentle thought,
My foolish wisdom that would make you free.
My sacrifice, my broken heart be nought,
Even my great love itself, the best of me!
Martyr of Love, I see no other way
But to keep silence in your sight, and pray.
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