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Heart to heart! / And the stillness of night and the moonlight, like hushed breathing / Silently, stealthily moving across thy hair!
O womanly face! / Tender and strong and lucent with infinite feeling, / Shrinking with startled joy, like wind-struck water, / And yet so frank, so unashamed of love!
Ay, for there it is, love -- that's the deepest. / Love's not love in the dark. / Light loves wither i' the sun, but Love endureth, / Clothing himself with the light as with a robe.
I would bare my soul to thy sight -- / Leave not a secret deep unsearched, / Unrevealing its shame or its glory. / Love without Truth shall die as a soul without God. / A lying love is the love of a day / But the brave and true shall love forever.
Build Love a house; / Let the walls be thick; / Shut him in from the sight of men; / But hide not Love from himself.
Ah, the summer night! / The wind in the trees and the moonlight! / And my kisses on thy throat / And thy breathing in my hair!
Silent, lips to lips! / But our souls have held speech, thought answering echoing thought, / Though the only words were kisses.