<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118211" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Hidden Love</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O let me love my love unto myself alone,<br>And know my knowledge to the world unknown;<br>No witness to my vision call,<br>Beholding, unbeheld of all;<br>And worship Thee, with Thee withdrawn apart,<br>Whoe’er, Whate’er Thou art,<br>Within the closest veil of mine own inmost heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What is it then to me<br>If others are inquisitive to see?<br>Why should I quit my place to go and ask<br>If other men are working at their task?<br>Leave my own buried roots to go<br>And see that brother plants shall grow;<br>And turn away from Thee, O Thou most Holy Light,<br>To look if other orbs their orbits keep aright,<br>Around their proper sun,<br>Deserting Thee, and being undone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O let me love my love unto myself alone,<br>And know my knowledge to the world unknown;<br>And worship Thee, O hid One, O much sought,<br>As but man can or ought,<br>Within the abstracted’st shrine of my least breathed-on thought.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Better it were, thou sayest, to consent;<br>Feast while we may, and live ere life be spent;<br>Close up clear eyes, and call the unstable sure,<br>The unlovely lovely, and the filthy pure;<br>In self-belyings, self-deceivings roll,<br>And lose in Action, Passion, Talk, the soul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nay, better far to mark off thus much air,<br>And call it Heaven: place bliss and glory there;<br>Fix perfect homes in the unsubstantial sky,<br>And say, what is not, will be by-and-bye.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Arthur+Hugh+Clough">Arthur Hugh Clough</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118211" data-title="The Hidden Love de Arthur Hugh Clough" data-description="O let me love my love unto myself alone,/And know my knowledge to the world unknown;/No witness to my vision call,/Beholding, unbeheld of all;/And worship Thee, with Thee withdrawn apart,/Whoe’er, Whate’er Thou art,/Within the closest veil of ..."></div> </div> </div>

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