Tonight I am too humble to lift my thoughts to your lips . The schoolmaster folded up his letter and held it against his cheek for a little space while he gazed out on the silver-shining sea with his dark eyes full of dreams . Then he took from his shabby trunk a little inlaid box and unlocked it with a twisted silver key . It was full of letters -- his letters to Una . The first had been written months ago , in the early promise of a northern spring . They linked together the golden weeks of the summer . Now , in the purple autumn , the box was full , and the schoolmaster 's term was nearly ended . He took out the letters reverently and looked over them , now and then murmuring below his breath some passages scattered through the written pages . He had laid bare his heart in those letters , writing out what he never could have told her , even if his love had been known and returned , for dead and gone generations of stern and repressed forefathers laid their unyielding fingers of reserve on his lips , and the shyness of dreamy , book-bred youth stemmed the language of eye and tone . I will love you forever and ever . And even though you know it not , surely such love will hover around you all your life . Like an invisible benediction , not understood but dimly felt , guarding you from ill and keeping far from you all things and thoughts of harm and evil ! * * * * * Sometimes I let myself dream . And in those dreams you love me , and we go out to meet life together . I have dreamed that you kissed me -- dreamed it so reverently that the dream did your womanhood no wrong . I have dreamed that you put your hands in mine and said , `` I love you . '' Oh , the rapture of it ! * * * * * We may give all we will if we do not ask for a return . There should be no barter in love . If , by reason of the greatness of my love for you , I were to ask your love in return , I should be a base creature .
It is only because I am content to love and serve for the sake of loving and serving that I have the right XXXXX love you .
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