Let Me Not Hate + 

Let me not hate, although the bruising world decries my peace, + 

Gives me no quarter, hounds me while I sleep; + 

Would snuff the candles of my soul and sear my inmost dreamings. + 

Let me not hate, though girt by vipers, green and hissing through the dark; + 

I fain must love. God help me keep the altar-gleams that flicker wearily, anon, + 

On down the world’s grim night! + 