Walter Montagu Douglas

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    “But true love is a durable fire
    In the mind ever burning;
    Never sick, never old, never dead,
    From itself never turning.”
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)

    “Let this great maxim be my virtue’s guide—In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.”
    —Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)

    “For here the lover and killer are mingled
    who had one body and one heart.
    And death who had the soldier singled
    has done the lover mortal hurt.”
    —Keith Douglas (1920–1944)