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I. Yea, why I love thee let my heart repeat: / I look upon thy face and then divine / How men could die for beauty, such as thine, -- / Deeming it sweet / To lay my life and manhood at thy feet, / And for a word, a glance, / Do deeds of old romance.
II. Yea, why I love thee let my heart unfold: / I look into thy heart and then I know / The wondrous poetry of the long-ago, / The Age of Gold, / That speaks strange music, that is old, so old, / Yet young, as when 't was born, / With all the youth of morn.
III. Yea, why I love thee let my heart conclude: / I look into thy soul and realize / The undiscovered meaning of the skies, -- / That long have wooed / The world with far ideals that elude, -- / Out of whose dreams, maybe, / God shapes reality.