Text: Edgar Allan Poe (ed. E. C. Stedman and G. E. Woodberry), “To F——s S. O——d,” The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Vol. X: Poems (1895), 10:81

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TO F——s S. O——d

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THOU wouldst be loved? — then let thy heart

From its present pathway part not!

Being everything which now thou art,

Be nothing which thou art not.

So with the world thy gentle ways,

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Thy grace, thy more than beauty,

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Shall be an endless theme of praise,

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And love — a simple duty.

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Notes:

None.

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