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I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Be not dishearten'd, affection shall solve the problems of freedom yet,
Those who love each other shall become invincible...
Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone, But love is not over...
All forces have been steadily employ'd to complete and delight me,
Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul.
Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me,
If I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.
All, all for immortality,
Love like the light silently wrapping all.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams,
Now I wash the gum from your eyes,
You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life.
Are you done with reviews and criticisms of life? animating now to life itself?
I was not singing erewhile for you to follow, to understand — nor am I now…
Youth, large, lusty, loving—Youth, full of grace, force, fascination!
Do you know that Old Age may come after you, with equal grace, force, fascination?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Love, that is all the earth to lovers — love, that mocks time and space,
Love, that is day and night — love, that is sun and moon and stars,
Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume,
No other words but words of love, no other thought but love.
A word of the faith that never balks,
Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all,
That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all.
* Blow again trumpeter! and for thy theme,
Take now the enclosing theme of all, the solvent and the setting,
Love, that is pulse of all, the sustenance and the pang,
The heart of man and woman all for love,
No other theme but love — knitting, enclosing, all-diffusing love.