Verses from Maoriland/If Love Were All!

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IF LOVE WERE ALL!

If Love were all, I should not hesitate;
    But I should lay at thy belovëd feet
My crown of life, secure to find my fate
    Perfected, and mine own self made complete,—
If Love were all!

If Love were all, how simple it would be
    To sit apart from storm, and strife, and stir,
In some old garden, rare with rosemary,
    And redolent of dainty lavender,—
If Love were all!

But Life has many voices, Dear, and we
    Hear Duty’s ringing clarion, and pass
Out from our fairyland of fantasy,
    Out from the old-world loveliness,—alas,
Love is not all!

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