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Acacia. — ‘ Platonic Love! 
A refined sentiment existing between persons of opposite sexes 
too tender for friendship, and too spirituelle for affection. 
There is a love that liveth 
From passion’s dross apart; 
And many an hour it giveth 
Of gladness to the heart. 
There is a dream that cometh, 
At morn — at noon — at even — 
And ’mid its wild flowers bloometh 
One bud of hope and Heaven! 
Radiant as Fancy’s gleam, 
But ever free from sin; 
That Love — that hope — that dream — 
Still glow my heart within. 
