Love's Unity

Alfred Austin

1835 to 1913

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