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BLESSED LOVE.


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BLESSED LOVE.

Love! blessed Love! if we could hang our walls with
The red coats of a thousand rosy Mays,
Surely they would not shine so well as thou dost,
Lighting our dusty days.
“Without thee, what a dim and woeful story
Our years would be, oh, excellence sublime!
Slip of the life eternal, brightly growing
In the low soil of time!”