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I. Why do I love you, who have never given / My heart encouragement or any cause? / Is it because, as earth is held of heaven, / Your soul holds mine by some mysterious laws? / Perhaps, unseen of me, within your eyes / The answer lies, the answer lies.
II. From your sweet lips no word hath ever fallen / To tell my heart its love is not in vain -- / The bee that wooes the flow'r hath honey and pollen / To cheer him on and bring him back again: / But what have I, your other friends above, / To feed my love, to feed my love?
III. Still, still you are my dream and my desire; / Your love is an allurement and a dare / Set for attainment, like a shining spire, / Far, far above me in the starry air: / And gazing upward, 'gainst the hope of hope, / I breast the slope, I breast the slope.