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Ah! though there is no recompense in love

Yet have I paid thee, given these gifts to thee,

Joy, riches, worship. Thou hast joy in me,

Is it not so, Beloved? Who shall prove

No worship of thee by my soul confessed?

And riches? Ah! a wealth of love is best.

[Pg 48]

Song.

I have known a thousand pleasures,—

Love is best—

Ocean's songs and forest treasures,

Work and rest,

Jewelled joys of dear existence,

Triumph over Fate's resistance,

But to prove, through Time's wide distance,

Love is best.

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Prayer.

I stood upon a hill, and watched the death

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