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Yes, I have known its being so;

Long ago was I seeing so—

Beckoning on to a fairer land,

Out of the flowers it waved its hand;

Bidding me on to life and love,

Life with the hope of the love thereof.

What is the value of knowing it,

If you are shy in showing it?—

Need of the earth unfolds the flower,

Dewy sweet, at the proper hour;

And, in the world of the human heart,

Love is the flower’s counterpart.

So when the soul is heedable,

Then is the heart made readable.—

I in the book of your heart have read

Words that are truer than truth hath said:

Measures of love, the spirit’s song,

Writ of your soul to haunt me long.

Love can hear each laudable

Thought of the loved made audible,

Spoken in wonder, or joy, or pain,

And reëcho it back again:

Ever responsive, ever awake,

Ever replying with ache for ache.