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LIKE TO LIKE.
Love me, fair one, love me!
I bring thee purest love;
Thine own heart would reprove thee,
Shouldst thou refuse my love.
The God that rules above us,
Source of life divine,
Who to all good doth move us,
Framed my heart for thine;
Framed thy heart for mine, love;
For, since creation's dawn,
By force of law divine, love,
Like to like is drawn.
I bring thee purest love;
Thine own heart would reprove thee,
Shouldst thou refuse my love.
The God that rules above us,
Source of life divine,
Who to all good doth move us,
Framed my heart for thine;
Framed thy heart for mine, love;
For, since creation's dawn,
By force of law divine, love,
Like to like is drawn.
Thou seeest how the blossom,
Many-hued and bright,
Its beauty doth unbosom
To the glowing light;
How in summer weather
Birds of kindred wing
In leafy wood together
Ope their throats, and sing.
So, when with power to win me,
Thy kindred beauty came,
The smothered love within me
Rose into a flame!
Many-hued and bright,
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To the glowing light;
How in summer weather
Birds of kindred wing
In leafy wood together
Ope their throats, and sing.
So, when with power to win me,
Thy kindred beauty came,
The smothered love within me
Rose into a flame!
Then love me, fair one, love me;
And if thy tongue say, No!
There is a Power above thee
A wiser way will show.
As step to step, where dancers
Wheel measured mazes fine,
So to my thought thine answers
By harmony divine.
For since creation's dawn, love,
No other law might be,
But like to like is drawn, love,
As I am drawn to thee!
And if thy tongue say, No!
There is a Power above thee
A wiser way will show.
As step to step, where dancers
Wheel measured mazes fine,
So to my thought thine answers
By harmony divine.
For since creation's dawn, love,
No other law might be,
But like to like is drawn, love,
As I am drawn to thee!
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