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First Line: How much living have you done?
Last Line: And loving only giving.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


How much living have you done?
From it the patterns that you weave
Are imaged:
Your own life is your totem-pole
Your yard of cloth,
Your living.

How much loving have you done?
How full and free your giving?
For living is but loving
And loving only giving.





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