"You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~












Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
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