Edward Rowland Sill (Эдвард Роулэнд Силл)
Reproof of Love
BECAUSE we are shut out from light, Each of the other's look and smile; Because the arms' and lips' delight Are past and dead, a weary while; Because the dawn, that joy has brought, Brings now but certainty of pain, Nothing for you and me has bought The right to live our lives in vain. Take not away the only lure That leads me on my lonely way, To know you noble, sweet, and pure, Great in least service, day by day.
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