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To: bentfeather; snippy_about_it; SAMWolf; Darksheare; StarCMC; Conspiracy Guy; All
Good morning, Lair! TGIF!

Sonnet II
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

But only three in all God's universe
Have heard this word thou hast said,--Himself, beside
Thee speaking, and me listening ! and replied
One of us . . . that was God, . . . and laid the curse
So darkly on my eyelids, as to amerce
My sight from seeing thee,--that if I had died,
The deathweights, placed there, would have signified
Less absolute exclusion. 'Nay' is worse
From God than from all others, O my friend !
Men could not part us with their worldly jars,
Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend;
Our hands would touch for all the mountain-bars:
And, heaven being rolled between us at the end,
We should but vow the faster for the stars.

361 posted on 06/25/2004 8:10:09 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("Now he sees his Savior face to face." - George W. Bush, eulogizing Ronald Reagan)
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To: Colonel_Flagg
Sonnet II
Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Morning Dear Colonel. Whoa, poewerful stuff this morning. Have a grand day and maybe tonight we can do some dancing with poetry? What say?? I think this cloudy day will have me well prepared to dance. grins
362 posted on 06/25/2004 8:17:44 AM PDT by Soaring Feather (~The Dragon Flies' Lair~ Poetry and Prose~)
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To: Colonel_Flagg; bentfeather; Old Sarge; Darksheare; snippy_about_it; SAMWolf; NicknamedBob; All
Hey ya'll!! Happy Friday to ya....

Here's another EBB poem, Colonel!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

Sonnets from the Portuguese 14: If Thou


              1     If thou must love me, let it be for nought

              2     Except for love's sake only. Do not say

              3     `I love her for her smile ... her look ... her way

              4     Of speaking gently, ... for a trick of thought

              5     That falls in well with mine, and certes brought

              6     A sense of pleasant ease on such a day'--

              7     For these things in themselves, Belovèd, may

              8     Be changed, or change for thee,--and love, so wrought,

              9     May be unwrought so. Neither love me for

            10     Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,--

            11     A creature might forget to weep, who bore

            12     Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!

            13     But love me for love's sake, that evermore

            14     Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.


363 posted on 06/25/2004 8:25:41 AM PDT by StarCMC (Please pray for the 2/7 Marines and Josh.)
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