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  • Neither love me for
    Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,
    A creature might forget to weep, who bore
    Thy comfort long, and lose thy love, thereby!
    But love me for love's sake, that evermore
    Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.144