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LOVE’S UNSELFISHNESS
CHAPTER XXXIX.
PARTING.
That is love
Which chooseth from a thousand only one
To be the object of that tenderness
Natural to every heart; which can resign
Its own best happiness for one dear sake;
Can bear with absence; hath no part in hope,
For hope is somewhat selfish: love is not,
And doth prefer another to itself.
Not in Blanchard
From The History of the Lyre in The Venetian Bracelet
In the Bouquet (1846), under (Chrysanthemum-Red) Chrysanthemum Indicum as I Love
