| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | Love Will Find out the Way | | Anonymous |
| | | OVER the mountains | |
| And over the waves, | |
| Under the fountains | |
| And under the graves; | |
| Under floods that are deepest, | 5 |
| Which Neptune obey, | |
| Over rocks that are steepest | |
| Love will find out the way. | |
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| Where there is no place | |
| For the glowworm to lie; | 10 |
| Where there is no space | |
| For receipt of a fly; | |
| Where the midge dares not venture, | |
| Lest herself fast she lay; | |
| If Love come, he will enter | 15 |
| And will find out the way. | |
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| You may esteem him | |
| A child for his might; | |
| Or you may deem him | |
| A coward for his flight; | 20 |
| But if she whom Love doth honour | |
| Be concealed from the day, | |
| Set a thousand guards upon her, | |
| Love will find out the way. | |
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| Some think to lose him | 25 |
| By having him confined; | |
| And some do suppose him, | |
| Poor heart! to be blind; | |
| But if ne’er so close you wall him, | |
| Do the best that you may, | 30 |
| Blind Love, if so you call him, | |
| He will find out his way. | |
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| You may train the eagle | |
| To stoop to your fist; | |
| Or you may inveigle | 35 |
| The phœnix of the east; | |
| The lioness, you may move her | |
| To give o’er her prey; | |
| But you’ll ne’er stop a lover, | |
| He will find out the way. | 40 |
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| If the earth it should part him, | |
| He would gallop it o’er; | |
| If the seas should o’erthwart him, | |
| He would swim to the shore. | |
| Should his Love become a swallow, | 45 |
| Through the air to stray, | |
| Love will lend wings to follow, | |
| And will find out the way. | |
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| There is no striving | |
| To cross his intent, | 50 |
| There is no contriving | |
| His plots to prevent; | |
| But if once the message greet him, | |
| That his true-love doth stay, | |
| If death should come and meet him, | 55 |
| Love will find out the way. | | | | |
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