nOne word is too often profaned
For me to profane it,
One feeling too falsely
disdained
For thee to disdain
it;
n
nOne hope is too like despair
For prudence to
smother,
And pity from thee more dear
Than that from
another.
n
nI can give not what men call love,
But wilt thou accept
not
The worship the heart lifts
above
And the heavens reject
not,--
n
nThe desire of the moth for the star,
Of the night for the morrow,
The devotion to something afar
From the sphere of our
sorrow?