Excerpt from Fifty Songs of Love Etter to have the love of one Than smiles like morning dew Better to have a living seed Than flowers of every hue. Better to feel a love within Than be lovely to the sight Better a homely tenderness Than beauty's wild delight. Better to love than be beloved, Though lonely all the day Better the fountain in the heart Than the fountain by the way. Better the thanks of one dear heart Than a nation's voice of praise Better the twilight ere the dawn Than yesterday's mid-blaze. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.