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(330-331) The Works of Love X

 

The Work of Love in Praising Love

 

We must not make of love an art

Or as some reason for distinction

All of us can take love's part

Which only stands to reason

Speaking of love may take some talent

In such a way makes poets

We all have love which we inhabit

Alas we rarely know it

 

Talent is an accident

Love is universal

Love's work in what is salient

Words are just rehearsal

Some by poetry are endowed

All the rest of us are not abandoned

To the praise of love, we all can bow

Love will never leave us stranded

 

Love dissolves our petty bonds

To bind us all in our humanity

Speaking love is only sounds

The works of love a certainty

One thing is to say

The other is to do

We can work in so many ways

To make love's praise be true

 

Thus we praise love in our actions

No just in lovely words

To make of love real satisfaction

We must work to make praise heard