One word is too often profaned
For me to profane it,
One feeling too falsely distain'd
For thee to distain it;
One hope is too like despair
For prudence to smother,
And pity from thee more dear
Than that from another.
I can not give what men call love:
But wilt thou accept not
The worship the heart lifts above
And the heavens reject not,
And the desire of the moth for the star,
Of the nigth for the morrow
The devotion to something afar
From the sphere of our sorrow.