Chapter 48 No.48

Many brought gifts to take

For her love's supreme sake,

Life and life's love, pleasure and praise and rest,

And went forth bare; but thou,

So much once richer, and now

Poorer than all these, more than these be blest;

Poorer so much, by so much given,

Than who gives earth for heaven's sake, not for earth's sake heaven.

            
            

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