Part V:.
‘Tis a fearful thing
To love
What death can touch,
To love, to hope, to dream,
And oh, to lose.
A thing for fools, this,
Love,
But a holy thing,
To love what death can touch.
.
For your life has lived in me;
Your laugh once lifted me;
Your word was a gift to me.
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To remember this brings painful joy.
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‘Tis a human thing, love,
A holy thing,
To love
What death can touch.
.
Judah Halevi or
Emanuel of Rome – 12th Century
