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LOVE AN EVIL, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why, I could give you fact and argument
Last Line: The great, disturbing spirit of the world!
Subject(s): Love


WHY, I could give you fact and argument,
Brought from all earth -- all life -- all history; --
O'erwhelm you with sad tales, convictions strong,
Till you could hate it; tell of gentle lives,
Light as the lark's upon the morning cloud,
Struck down at once by the keen shaft of love;
Of maiden beauty, wasting all away,
Like a departing vision into air;
Finding no occupation for her eyes,
But to bedew her couch with midnight tears,
Till death upon its bosom pillow'd her;
Of noble natures sour'd; rich minds obscured;
High hopes turn'd blank; nay, of the kingly crown
Mouldering amid the embers of the throne; --
And all by love. We paint him as a child,
When he should sit, a giant on his clouds,
The great, disturbing spirit of the world!





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