To the end of the trail / Richard Hovey [electronic text]

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To the end of the trail / Richard Hovey [electronic text]
Author
Hovey, Richard, 1864-1900.
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New York: Duffield & Company
1908
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LOVE'S SILENCE.

I DO not ask your love as having rights Because of all there is between us two. Love has no rights, Love has but his delights, Which but delight because they are not due. The highest merit any man can prove Is not enough to merit what Love gives, And Love would lose its quality of love,

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Lived it for any cause but that it lives. Therefore I do not plead my gentle thought, My foolish wisdom that would make you free. My sacrifice, my broken heart be nought, Even my great love itself, the best of me!Martyr of Love, I see no other way But to keep silence in your sight, and pray.
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