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Sonnet 40 - Oh, yes! they love through all this world of ours! - Illustration on Sermon | IllustrateTheWord

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Sonnet 40 - Oh, yes! they love through all this world of ours!

By Elizabeth Barrett BrowningSource: Elizabeth Barrett Browning - PoetryDB (Public Domain)104 words

Oh, yes! they love through all this world of ours!

I will not gainsay love, called love forsooth.

I have heard love talked in my early youth,

And since, not so long back but that the flowers

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