"Yes, I'd like that." "Then I want to hear you read it, please James."
Sonnets From the Portuguese, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Boston:Ticknor and Company, 1886. Illustrations by Ludvig Sandöe Ipsen. Click once on the image to see larger print. |
"James, do you think it is wrong to love a person so completely? Should such love be reserved for God alone?"
After a pause, James replied, "I think that the better we can love others, the better we can love God, for He commands it Himself - for us to love our neighbors as ourselves, and that it is next to loving God."
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