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“Vivien’s Song” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (6 Aug 1809 – 6 Oct 1892)
In Love, if Love be Love, if Love be ours,
Faith and unfaith can ne’er be equal powers:
Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all.
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It is the little rift within the lute,
That by and by will make the music mute,
And ever widening slowly silence all.
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The little rift within the lover’s lute,
Or little pitted speck in garner’d fruit,
That rotting inward slowly moulders all.
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It is not worth the keeping: let it go:
But shall it? answer, darling, answer, no.
And trust me not at all or all in all.