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LOVE THAT FALTERED
Love that faltered for an hour
Had not felt the awful power
Of the god whom gods adore;
Of the god before whose portal
Kneel the deathless and the mortal,—
Suppliant forever more.
Love that faltered had not heard
Love's divine, compelling word,
Or it instant had obeyed;
Giving with the glad devotion
Of the river for the ocean,—
Doubting not, and unafraid.
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