Love
Kate Temple's Song
From A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1895)
Love
Only a touch, and nothing more:
Ah! but never so touch'd before!
Touch of lip, was it? Touch of hand?
Either is easy to understand.
Earth may be smitten with fire or frost —
Never the touch of true love lost.
Only a word, was it? Scarce a word!
Musical whisper, softly heard,
Syllabled nothing — just a breath —
'Twill outlast life, and 'twill laugh at death.
Love with so little can do so much —
Only a word, sweet! Only a touch!
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