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A WOMAN'S REQUIREMENTS.

AFTER MRS. BROWNING.

Hoping and believing.

Love me in the master-stroke,

Shaping and creating;

Love me in thy hope deferred,

Passionate, yet waiting.

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Love me in thine ecstasies,

Heaven and earth transcending;

Love me in thy laurel crowns,

Like a king descending.

Love me still in thy distrust,

In that hour of sadness,

When the world is bitterness,

Truth and justice madness.

Love me with the purity

Of an angel's fire;

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