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I love and love not: Lord, it breaks my heart / To love and not to love. / Thou veiled within Thy glory, gone apart / Into Thy shrine, which is above, / Dost Thou not love me, Lord, or care / For this mine ill? -- / _I love thee here or there,_ / _I will accept thy broken heart, lie still._
Lord, it was well with me in time gone by / That cometh not again, / When I was fresh and cheerful, who but I? / I fresh, I cheerful: worn with pain / Now, out of sight and out of heart; / O Lord, how long? -- / _I watch thee as thou art,_ / _I will accept thy fainting heart, be strong._
"Lie still," "be strong," to-day; but, Lord, to-morrow, / What of to-morrow, Lord? / Shall there be rest from toil, be truce from sorrow, / Be living green upon the sward / Now but a barren grave to me, / Be joy for sorrow? -- / _Did I not die for thee? _ / _Do I not live for thee? leave Me to-morrow._