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  • I love thee with the passion put to use
    In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
    I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
    With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath,
    Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose,
    I shall but love thee better after death.

    Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)