Love's Unity
Alfred Austin
1835 to 1913
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How can I tell thee when I love thee best?
In rapture or repose? how shall I say?
I only know I love thee every way,
for love's flight, or folded in love's nest.
See, what is day but night bedewed with rest?
what the night except the tired-out day?
And 'tis love's difference, not love's decay,
If now I dawn, now fade, upon thy breast.
Self-torturing sweet! Is't the self-same sun
Wanes in the west that in the east,
His fervour nowise altered nor decreased?
So rounds my love, returning where begun,
still beginning, never most nor least,
But fixedly various, all love's parts in one.
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