The great things that I love I cannot do!
A. Mary F. Robinson
1857 to 1944
The great things that I love I cannot do!
The little things I do I cannot love...
I never knew
Our earth so vain, so void the heavens above.
A dream in daytime, aimlessly I rove,
And wander through
A world whose wonders are not vast enough
To hide one haunting image from my view.
And nought, I find, is sweet, and nothing true;
And one dream, only, worth the dreaming of.
O Love, my Love,
If I could give my life and die for you!
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