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Love, What Is Love

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

LOVE; what is love? A great and aching heart;
Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair.
Life; what is life? Upon a moorland bare
To see love coming and see love depart.




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I think it better that in times like these a poets mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right

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