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5
Growth through Love
If ever you began, you were the heirAnd offspring of some dying Universe,
Which in its death bequeathed you to the care
Of Love, your guardian and your foster-nurse.
And you were love-awakened, love-caressed,
Love-cradled, love-enfolded, love-inspired;
Drinking in life you hung upon Love's breast,
Till with the love of love your heart was fired.
And you grew great through loving—and still grow,
Transcending still your own infinity:—
For love's a river in its outward flow;
But in its intake 'tis a shoreless sea.
And so the more you love, the more you give,
The fuller, deeper, is the life you live.
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