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Florence Earle Coates

If love were but a little thing—
 Strange love, which, more than all, is great—
One might not such devotion bring,
 Early to serve and late.

If love were but a passing breath—
 Wild love—which, as God knows, is sweet—
One might not make of life and death
 A pillow for love’s feet.

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From The Little Book of Modern Verse | 1913

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