"I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."
"As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose."
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Source: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1853). “Poems”, p.151
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