Elizabeth Barrett Browning - If thou must love me, let it be for noughtExcept...

If thou must love me, let it be for noughtExcept for love's sake only. Do not say'I love her for her smile.. Her look.. Her wayOf speaking gently,.. For a trick of thoughtThat falls in well with mine, and certes broughtA sense of pleasant ease on such a day'For these things in themselves, Beloved, mayBe changed, or change for thee,--and love, so wrought, May be unwrought so. Neither love me forThine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,A creature might forget to weep, who boreThy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!But love me for love's sake, that evermoreThou may'st love on, through love's eternity.

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If thou must love me, let it be for noughtExcept for love's sake only. Do not say'I love her for her smile.. Her look.. Her wayOf speaking gently,.. For a trick of thoughtThat falls in well with mine, and certes broughtA sense of pleasant ease on such a day'For these things in themselves, Beloved, mayBe changed, or change for thee,--and love, so wrought, May be unwrought so. Neither love me forThine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,A creature might forget to weep, who boreThy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!But love me for love's sake, that evermoreThou may'st love on, through love's eternity. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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