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SMALL is the trust when love is green / In sap of early years; / A little thing steps in between / And kisses turn to tears.
Awhile-and see how love be grown / In loveliness and power! / Awhile, it loves the sweets alone, / But next it loves the sour.
A little love is none at all / That wanders or that fears; / A hearty love dwells still at call / To kisses or to tears.
Such then be mine, my love to give, / And such be yours to take: - / A faith to hold, a life to live, / For lovingkindness' sake:
Should you be sad, should you be gay, / Or should you prove unkind, / A love to hold the growing way / And keep the helping mind: -
A love to turn the laugh on care / When wrinkled care appears, / And, with an equal will, to share / Your losses and your tears.