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OVER the mountains |
And over the waves, |
Under the fountains |
Under floods that are deepest, |
Which Neptune obey, |
Over rocks that are steepest, |
Love will find out the way. |
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When there is no place |
For the glow-worm to lie, |
When there is no space |
For receipt of a fly; |
When the midge dares not venture |
Lest herself fast she lay, |
If Love come, he will enter |
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; |
But if she whom Love doth honour |
Be conceal'd from the day— |
Set a thousand guards upon her, |
Love will find out the way. |
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Some think to lose him |
By having him confined; |
And some do suppose him, |
Poor heart! to be blind; |
But if ne'er so close ye wall him, |
Do the best that ye may, |
Blind Love, if so ye 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 |
The Phoenix of the east; |
The lioness, you may move her |
To give over her prey; |
But you'll ne'er stop a lover— |
He will find out the way. |
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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, |
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; |
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, |
Love will find out the way!
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