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Of course I love you

by Sappho

Sappho

Of course I love you
but if you love me,
marry a young woman!
I couldn't stand it
to live with a young
man, I being older




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Why has a religious turn of mind always a tendency to narrow and harden the heart?
• Robert Burns


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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    In Faith
    by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    When the soft sweet wind o' the south went by, I dwelt in the light of a dark brown eye; And out where the robin sang his song, We lived and loved, while the days were long.