Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. V. Browning to Rupert Brooke
John Addington Symonds (18401893)[Friends]
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Unto thyself thou givest:
On barren soil thou canst not cast,
For by his life thou livest.
That I should still be giving
Through him unto myself, when he
Is love within me living.
Nor let him guess the giver;
Like dews that drop on hills unknown,
To feed a lordly river.