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Madge Morris Wagner

If “life is love, and only love,”
  Then never have I lived before;
But for love’s sack I’ll sit me down
  And careful con the lesson o’er.

I fain would win the shining goal,
  So far away, so seeming fair,
But could not reach its hights alone;
  Then, teacher, take me, take me there.
                                        REVENITA.

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From Debris | H. S. Crocker & Co., 1881

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