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LOVE LIGHTS HIS FIRE by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

Poet Analysis

First Line: LOVE LIGHTS HIS FIRE TO BURN MY PAST
Last Line: FROM LOVE, ALONE, I LEARN TO LIVE.
Subject(s): LOVE; PASSION;

Love lights his fire to burn my Past —
There goes the house where I was born!
And even Friendship — Love declares —
Must feed his precious flames and burn.

I stuffed my life with odds and ends,
But how much joy can Knowledge give?
The World my guide, I lived to learn —
From Love, alone, I learn to live.



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