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MARGARET FULLER OSSOLI.

does not quite come home to me, though this does, —

‘I could not love thee, sweet,[1] so much,
 Loved I not honor more.’ …

“Do not, I implore you, whether from pride or affection, wish to exile me from the dark hour. The manly mind might love best in the triumphant hour; but the woman could no more stay from the foot of the cross than from the transfiguration.”[2]

  1. Thus in the MS.
  2. MS. (W. H. C.)