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richard mitchley - ralph waldo emerson - give all to love lyrics

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give all to love;
obey thy heart;
friends, kindred, days
estate, good+fame
plans, credit and the muse,—
nothing refuse

‘t is a brave master;
let it have scope:
follow it utterly
hope beyond hope:
high and more high
it dives into noon
with wing unspent
untold intent:
but it is a god
knows its own path
and the outlets of the sky

it was never for the mean;
it requireth courage stout
souls above doubt
valor unbending
it will reward,—
they shall return
more than they were
and ever ascending
leave all for love;
yet, hear me, yet
one word more thy heart behoved
one pulse more of firm endeavor,—
keep thee to+day
to+morrow, forever
free as an arab
of thy beloved

cling with life to the maid;
but when the surprise
first vague shadow of surmise
flits across her bosom young
of a joy apart from thee
free be she, fancy+free;
nor thou detain her vesture’s hem
nor the palest rose she flung
from her summer diadem

though thou loved her as thyself
as a self of purer clay
though her parting dims the day
stealing grace from all alive;
heartily know
when half+gods go
the gods arrive

- richard mitchley lyrics

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