Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 8. THE TRUEST LOVE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER


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TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 8. THE TRUEST LOVE, by                    
First Line: In the world's book so full of vulgar things
Last Line: Of being just as true as when 'twas born.
Subject(s): Happiness; Marriage; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


In the world's book so full of vulgar things
Which tell of love, some dying and some dead.
It is most pleasant to find one that rings
As true in age as when on youth it fed.
It is to me like a Utopian dream
By some strange chance made real and manifest.
I read in it a glorious anthem's theme,
Which only can be sung by Heaven's blest.

For truest love sees in the withered flower
A beauty which it owned when first it grew,
Protects it from the fierce and sudden shower,
And bathes its sweetness in the autumn dew.
And though there's many a promise broken,
And the world's book has many pages torn,
I have seen some whose love gives every token
Of being just as true as when 'twas born.





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