Girl in the Meadow

• Let Love Go, If Go she will

  Posted: April 7, 2008, 4:43 pm by Girl In the Meadow

  A few days ago i wrote about the pain of the lovelorn; this poem summarizes all
  
  By Robert Louis Stevenson
  
  Let love go, if go she will.
  Seek not, O fool, her wanton flight to stay.
  Of all she gives and takes away
  The best remains behind her still.
  
  The best remains behind; in vain
  Joy she may give and take again,
  Joy she may take and leave us pain,
  If yet she leave behind
  The constant mind
  To meet all fortunes nobly, to endure
  All things with a good heart, and still be pure,
  Still to be foremost in the foremost cause,
  And still be worthy of the love that was.
  Love coming is omnipotent indeed,
  But not Love going. Let her go. The seed
  Springs in the favouring Summer air, and grows,
  And waxes strong; and when the Summer goes,
  Remains, a perfect tree.
  
  Joy she may give and take again,
  Joy she may take and leave us pain.
  O Love, and what care we?
  For one thing thou hast given, O Love, one thing
  Is ours that nothing can remove;
  And as the King discrowned is still a King,
  The unhappy lover still preserves his love.
  
  
  

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