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Love Without Hope

by Robert Graves

Robert Graves

Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher
Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter,
So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly
Singing about her head, as she rode by.




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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
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