by Walter Scott, Sir (1771 - 1832)

True love’s the gift which God has given
Language: English 
True love’s the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven.
It is not fantasy’s hot fire,
Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;
It lieth not in fierce desire;
With dead desire it does not die.
It is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind,
In body and in soul can bind.

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This text was added to the website: 2016-06-14
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