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SONG (1) by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON

First Line: THE GREAT THINGS THAT I LOVE I CANNOT DO!
Last Line: IF I COULD GIVE MY LIFE AND DIE FOR YOU!
Subject(s): LOVE;

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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