| How Do I Love Thee How do I love thee? Let me count the ways I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for right; I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use in my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose with my lost Saints I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life! And if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
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