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Like love we don't know where or why Like love can't compel or fly Like love we often… — W.H. Auden

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Like love we don't know where or why Like love can't compel or fly Like love we often weep Like love we seldom keep

W.H. Auden
Law like Love · 1939
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1939
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W.H. Auden
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Auden, W. H. "Law, say the gardeners, is the sun." Another Time. Faber and Faber/Random House, 1940.

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