“Loved once for ever loved: how surely sounds
This gospel to me since I learned to list
Truth from thy lips, mine own evangelist.
What thought presumes to set now any bounds
To Love whose being informs us and surrounds?”

—  John Barlas

XXIII.&quot;Loved once for ever loved: how surely sounds&quot; <br class="br"> Love Sonnets http://www.sonnets.org/love-sonnets.htm (1889)

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