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"BECAUSE OF YOU"
Sweet have I known the blossoms of the morning
Tenderly tinted to their
hearts of dew:
But now my flowers have found a fuller fragrance,
Because
of you.
Long have I worshiped in my soul's enshrining
High visions of the noble
and the true -
Now all my aims and all my prayers are purer,
Because of
you.
Wise have I seen the uses of life's labor;
To all its puzzles found some
answering clue.
But now my life has learned a nobler meaning,
Because of
you.
In the past days I chafed at pain and waiting,
Grasping at gladness as the
children do;
Now it is sweet to wait and joy to suffer,
Because of
you.
In the long years of silences that part us
Dimmed by my tears and darkened
to my view,
Close shall I hold my memories and my madness,
Because of
you.
Whether our lips shall touch or hands shall hunger,
Whether our love be
fed or joys be few,
Life will be sweeter and more worth the
living,
Because of you.
From: Stevenson, Burton Egbert.
The Home Book of Verse.
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This collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis.
Collection © 1999-2002 Jone Johnson Lewis.
Citing poems from these pages:
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