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TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. A HARD SAYING, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who loves the mortal creature, ending there
Last Line: Thy hand.
Subject(s): Love


WHO loves the mortal creature, ending there, is no more free—he has
given himself away to Death—
For him the slimy black Form lies in wait at every turn, befouling the
universe;
Yet he who loves must love the mortal, and he who would love perfectly must
be free:
[Love—glorious though it be—is a disease as long as it destroys
or even impairs the freedom of the soul.]

Therefore if thou wouldst love, withdraw thyself from love:
Make it thy slave, and all the miracles of nature shall lie in the palm of
thy hand.





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