“love”
by-roy-croft
i-love-you，
not-only-for-what-you-are，
but-for-what-i-am
when-i-am-with-you。
i-love-you，
not-only-for-what
you-have-made-of-yourself，
but-for-what
you-are-******-of-me。
i-love-you
for-the-part-of-me
that-you-bring-out;
i-love-you
for-putting-your-hand
into-my-heaped-up-heart
and-passing-over
all-the-foolish，weak-things
that-you-can’t-help
dimly-seeing-there，
and-for-drawing-out
into-the-light
all-the-beautiful-belongings
that-no-one-else-had-looked
quite-far-enough-to-find。
i-love-you-because-you
are-helping-me-to-make
of-the-lumber-of-my-life
not-a-tavern
but-a-temple;
out-of-the-works
of-my-every-day
not-a-reproach
but-a-song。
i-love-you
because-you-have-done
more-than-any-creed
could-have-done
to-make-me-good
by-roy-croft
i-love-you，
not-only-for-what-you-are，
but-for-what-i-am
when-i-am-with-you。
i-love-you，
not-only-for-what
you-have-made-of-yourself，
but-for-what
you-are-******-of-me。
i-love-you
for-the-part-of-me
that-you-bring-out;
i-love-you
for-putting-your-hand
into-my-heaped-up-heart
and-passing-over
all-the-foolish，weak-things
that-you-can’t-help
dimly-seeing-there，
and-for-drawing-out
into-the-light
all-the-beautiful-belongings
that-no-one-else-had-looked
quite-far-enough-to-find。
i-love-you-because-you
are-helping-me-to-make
of-the-lumber-of-my-life
not-a-tavern
but-a-temple;
out-of-the-works
of-my-every-day
not-a-reproach
but-a-song。
i-love-you
because-you-have-done
more-than-any-creed
could-have-done
to-make-me-good