Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume II. Love. 1904. | | | | II. Love’s Nature | | “Love scorns degrees” | | Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830–1886) |
| | From “The Mountain of the Lovers”
LOVE scorns degrees; the low he lifteth high, | |
| The high he draweth down to that fair plain | |
| Whereon, in his divine equality, | |
| Two loving hearts may meet, nor meet in vain; | |
| ’Gainst such sweet levelling Custom cries amain, | 5 |
| But o’er its harshest utterance one bland sigh, | |
| Breathed passion-wise, doth mount victorious still, | |
| For Love, earth’s lord, must have his lordly will. | | | | |
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