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TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE END OF LOVE by EDWARD CARPENTER

First Line: SEEK NOT THE END OF LOVE IN THIS ACT OR IN THAT ACT
Last Line: GREAT AND IMMORTAL POSSESSION, WHICH NO MAN CAN TAKE AWAY.
Subject(s): LOVE - LOSS OF;

SEEK not the end of love in this act or in that act—lest indeed it
become the end;
But seek this act and that act and thousands of acts whose end is
love—
So shalt thou at last create that which thou now desirest;
And then when these are all past and gone there shall remain to thee a
great and immortal possession, which no man can take away.



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