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   • If Thou Must Love Me

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     Written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

     If thou must love me, let it be for naught
     Except for love’s sake only. Do not say,
     ‘I love her for her smile - her look - her way
     Of speaking gently,- for a trick of thought
     That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
     A sense of pleasant ease on such a day’ -
     For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
     Be changed, or change for thee - and love, so wrought,
     May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
     Thine own dear pity’s wiping my cheeks dry:
     A creature might forget to weep, who bore
     Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
     But love me for love’s sake, that evermore
     Thou mayst love on, through love’s eternity.

     
     
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