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- "I loved you first: but afterwards your love"
- By Christina Rossetti
- I loved you first: but afterwards your love
- Outsoaring mine, sang such a loftier song
- As drowned the friendly cooings of my dove.
- Which owes the other most? my love was long,
- And yours one moment seemed to wax more strong;
- I loved and guessed at you, you construed me
- And loved me for what might or might not be –
- Nay, weights and measures do us both a wrong.
- For verily love knows not ‘mine’ or ‘thine;’
- With separate ‘I’ and ‘thou’ free love has done,
- For one is both and both are one in love:
- Rich love knows nought of ‘thine that is not mine;’
- Both have the strength and both the length thereof,
- Both of us, of the love which makes us one.
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