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