Worth while

Adela Florence Cory Nicolson (1865โ€“1904)

Stars of the Desert

I asked of my desolate shipwrecked soul"Wouldst thou rather never have metThe one whom thou lovedst beyond controlAnd whom thou adorest yet?"

Back from the senses, the heart, the brain,Came the answer swiftly thrown,"What matter the price? we would pay it again,We have had, we have loved, we have known!"