I will never love thee more, <br />Though I loved thee once so well; <br />Why, a prodigal, the store <br />Of my bosom's inmost cell, <br />Should I waste on one who ne'er <br />Won a truthful heart before; <br />Let who will thy favour share, <br />I will never love thee more! <br />I will never love thee more! <br />Wherefore to an idol bow, <br />Why a deity adore, <br />Heartless, hollow, cold as thou! <br />Fools the facile smiles may win, <br />That 'twas mine to win of yore; <br />Worship misapplied, is sin; <br />I will never love thee more! <br />I will never love thee more, <br />Though I loved thee once so well; <br />Love's illusion now is o'er, <br />Take then, take my last farewell! <br />Should thy practised wiles again <br />Touch some truthful bosom's core, <br />Be the thought not stirred in vain, <br />Why I ne'er can love thee more!<br /><br />Alaric Alexander Watts<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-will-never-love-thee-more/
