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HAMPSHIRE DAYS 



for a friend the love that will cause him to lay down 

 his life for another. Is it possible to believe, they 

 say, that this beautiful sacred flame can be darkened 

 for ever when soul and body fall asunder ? But love 

 without hate I do not know and cannot conceive ; 

 one implies the other. No good and no bad quality 

 or principle can exist (for me) without its opposite. 

 As old Langland wisely says 



For by luthere men know the good ; 



And whereby wiste men which were white 



If all things black were ? 



