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JUDGE NOTHING BEFORE THE TIME by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

First Line: LOVE UNDERSTANDS THE MYSTERY
Last Line: LOVE UNDERSTANDS THE MYSTERY.
Subject(s): LOVE - NATURE OF;

Love understands the mystery, whereof
We can but spell a surface history:
Love knows, remembers: let us trust in Love:
Love understands the mystery.

Love weighs the event, the long pre-history,
Measures the depth beneath, the height above,
The mystery, with the ante-mystery.

To love and to be grieved befits a dove
Silently telling her bead-history:
Trust all to Love, be patient and approve:
Love understands the mystery.



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