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Who the loser, who the winner,

If the Fancy fail as preacher?—

None who loved was yet beginner

Though another's love-beseecher;

Love's revealment 's of the inner

Life and deity, the teacher.

Who may falsify the feeling

To the lover who is loser?

Has she felt:—the mere revealing

Of the passion 's his accuser;

She conceals it; the concealing

Is her own love's self-abuser.

One hath said, no flower knoweth

Of the fragrance it revealeth;

Song, its soul that overfloweth,

Never nightingale's heart feeleth—

Such the love the spirit groweth,

Love unconscious if it healeth.