ONE word is too often profaned2

For me to profane1 it

One feeling too falsely disdain3'd

For thee to disdain it.

One hope is too like despair

For prudence4 to smother5

And pity from thee more dear

Than that from another.

I can give not what men call love;

But wilt7 thou accept not

The worship the heart lifts above

And the Heavens reject not:

The desire of the moth6 for the star

Of the night for the morrow

The devotion to something afar

From the sphere of our sorrow?