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Love to daily uses wed
Shall be sweetly perfected.
Life by repetition grows
Unto its appointed close:
Day to day fulfils the year;
Shall not Love by Love wax dear?
All piles by repetition rise;
Shall not then Loves' edifice?
Shall not Love too learn his writ,
Like Wisdom, by repeating it?
By the oft-repeated use
All perfections gain their thews;
And so, with daily uses wed,
Love, too, shall be perfected.

FRANCIS THOMPSON.