'REFUSE, refrain: for this is not the love
The Annunciation Angel warned you of;
This is the little candle, not the sun;
It burns, but will not warm, unhappy one!'
'But ah! suppose the sun should never shine,
Then what an anguish of regret were mine
To know that even from this I turned away!
Candles may serve, if there should be no day.'
'Nay, better to go cold your whole life long
Than do the sun, than do your soul such wrong:
And if the sun shine not, be life's the blame
And yours the pride, who scorned the meaner flame.'
Retro Santhanas
Edith Nesbit
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Poem topics: I love you, angel, away, never, pride, soul, long, cold, candle, wrong, flame, warm, regret, suppose, Valentine's Day, anguish, life, love, I miss you, shine, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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