They will never fade , for such love is eternal . It is a whole summer since I first met you . I had been waiting for you all my life before and did not know it . But I knew it when you came and brought with you a sense of completion and fulfilment . This has been the precious year of my life , the turning-point to which all things past tended and all things future must look back . Oh , my dear , I thank you for this year ! It has been your royal gift to me , and I shall be rich and great forever because of it . Nothing can ever take it from me , nothing can mar it . It were well to have lived a lifetime of loneliness for such a boon -- the price would not be too high . I would not give my one perfect summer for a generation of other men 's happiness . There are those in the world who would laugh at me , who would pity me , Una . They would say that the love I have poured out in secret at your feet has been wasted , that I am a poor weak fool to squander all my treasure of affection on a woman who does not care for me and who is as far above me as that great white star that is shining over the sea . Oh , my dear , they do not know , they can not understand . The love I have given you has not left me poorer . It has enriched my life unspeakably ; it has opened my eyes and given me the gift of clear vision for those things that matter ; it has been a lamp held before my stumbling feet whereby I have avoided snares and pitfalls of baser passions and unworthy dreams . For all this I thank you , dear , and for all this surely the utmost that I can give of love and reverence and service is not too much . I could not have helped loving you . But if I could have helped it , knowing with just what measure of pain and joy it would brim my cup , I would have chosen to love you , Una . There are those who strive to forget a hopeless love . To me , the greatest misfortune that life could bring would be that I should forget you .
I want XXXXX remember you always and love you and long for you .
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