Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand Henceforward in thy shadow. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"An honest man's the noblest work of God." Alexander Pope

Psalm 23:4
"Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me;

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 every day's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.~Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 - 1861"

I seek no copy now of life's first half: Leave here the pages with long musing curled, And write me new my future's epigraph, New angel mine, unhoped for in the world!

His answer was - not the common gallantries which come so easily to the lips of me - but simply that he loved me - he met argument with fact. He told me - that with himself also, the early freshness of youth had gone by, & that throughout it he had not been able to love any woman - that he loved now for the first time & the last.