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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

For the ends of Being and Ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday's 5 Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.

I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.

I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.

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But the young, young children, O my brothers,

They are weeping bitterly!

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From the sleep wherein she lieth none

will wake her

Crying, 'Get up,

little Alice! it is day.'

They are weeping in the playtime of the If you listen by that grave, in sun and

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"For, all day, the wheels are droning, And we hear not (for the wheels in their turning;

Their wind comes in our faces, Till our hearts turn our heads, with pulses burning,

And the walls turn in their places: 80 Turns the sky in the high window, blank and reeling,

Turns the long light that drops adown

the wall,

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should hear us,

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resounding)

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While the rushing of the iron wheels And well may the children weep before

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