VALENTINE'S GREETINGS TO ALL YOU LOVELY LADIES

VALENTINE'S GREETINGS, TO ALL YOU LOVELY LADIES OUT THERE.

 

 

How do I love thee?  Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

I love thee to the level of everyday's

Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.

I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;

I love thee purely, as they run from  Praise.

I love thee with the passion put to use

In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose

With my lost saints, - I love thee with the breath,

Smiles, tears, of all my life! – and, if God choose,

I shall but love thee better after death.

 

  Excerpt from

 

Elizabeth Browning's Sonnet.

 

 

 

This sentiment goes in some small way to all the ladies of North Lincolnshire, the UK and obviously the wider world out there.  It is a privilege.

 

John Donaldson,

High Street,

BROUGHTON.