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Text: Edgar Allan Poe, "To ——" (G), The Lover's Gift for 1849, (1848), p. 99





TO ——.

BY EDGAR A. POE.

THOU wouldst be loved? Then let thy heart
    From its present pathway part not!
Being every thing which now thou art,
    Be nothing which thou art not.
So with the world, thy gentle ways,
    Thy grace, thy more than beauty,
Shall be an endless theme of praise
    And love — a simple duty.





Notes:

The full title of the annual was The Lover's Gift ; or, Tributes to the Beautiful.


[S:1 - LG, 1848 (1850)]