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 all the loves that loved her for her soul Have married fleshly wives and comfortable, When all the loves that loved her over well For her sweet virtue have endured control, When all the loves that loved her down the roll Of every excellence she should excel Have lost their adjectives—then I shall tell Wherefore I loved her, and tell true the whole.

I loved her for her youth that could not last, I loved her for her laugh that could but die, I loved her face that death should overcast, I loved her but a day and it was past,— And so I love her till all loves are by: Moments and moonlight doth the heart hold fast.