Equal Love
Edith
Nesbit
Nesbit, Edith
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Fralick
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University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project
Victoria, BC, Canada
In the public domain
Poem signed E. Nesbit.
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“ Loves die !” they say. Love, so say we,
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Equal Lov
e.
“ Loves die !” they say. Love, so say we,
Of all the loves mere chance inspired.
Joy’s shadow is satiety ;
Too soon the unequal hands are free,
The drooped hand loosed—the raised hand tired.
How soon made free—grown sad too soon ;
These from their several valley-plains
Wonder why life is out of tune,
And why of all the wealth of June
Only some withered rose remains.
But we, who free and equal stand
Upon our mountain, and are still,
With level eyes and steadfast hand—
We see the old loves and understand
Why they died and this never will.
E. Nesbit
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