If Thou Must Love Me
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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If thou must love me, let it be for naught
Except for love’s sake only. Do not say
“I love her for her smile…her look…
her way of speaking gently -for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine and certes bought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day.”
For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed,
or changed for thee – and love so wrought may be unwrought so.
