New poems and variant readings/Love, what is love?

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New poems and variant readings (1918)
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Love, what is love?
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1916650New poems and variant readings — Love, what is love?1918Robert Louis Stevenson
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LOVE, WHAT IS LOVE?

Love—what is love? A great and aching heart;
Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair.
Life—what is life? Upon a moorland bare
To see love coming and see love depart.

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