The New Penelope/Lines Written in an Album

by Frances Fuller Victor

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LINES WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM.

The highest use of happy love is this;
To make us loving to the loveless ones;
Willing indeed to halve our meed of bliss,
If our sweet plenty others' want atones:
Of love's abundance may God give thee store,
To spend in love's sweet charities, Lenore.