Excerpt from Amaranthus: A Book of Little Songs

To R ...

13th November, 1900.

What will the world do, dearest, when we go,
And take Love with us to the stars above -
This world, to which sweet Love himself we owe?
How can we claim yet pay this debt of love?

0, Love! is earth's or heaven's this treasure-trove?
O, earth, for Love's sake yield thy claim of him!
"Aye, yield, cries Faith, so I the heir of Love,
May fill the place and take the name of him."

Faith become Love, and Love bequeathed to Faith? -
Ah, happy earth, and happy stars above!
Destined to conquer Time and Space and Death,
When Love's in Heaven, and Faith on earth is Love!

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