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 The right to feed and clothe the poor, The right to teach them to endure; The right,—when other friends have flown, And left the sufferer all alone,— To kneel that dying couch beside, And meekly point them o'er the tide; The right a happy home to make, In any clime for Love's sweet sake; Rights such as these are all we ask, Until in bliss our souls shall bask.

Many years ago a lady, — of Worcester, Mass., — now happily in heaven, was speaking with me on the subject of these writings, and she handed me the following lines defining love. They are very good: —