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Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.

When Love Meets Love

Thomas Edward Brown (1830–1897)

WHEN love meets love, breast urged to breast,

God interposes,

An unacknowledged guest,

And leaves a little child among our roses.

We love, God makes: in our sweet mirth

God spies occasion for a birth.

Then is it His, or is it ours?

I know not—He is fond of flowers.