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If thou must love me, let it
be for nought
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
They 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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