Who Said That Love Was Fire?

Patience WorthPatience Worth

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Who said that love was fire?
I know that love is ash.
It is the thing which remains
When the fire is spent,
The holy essence of experience.
Patience Worth
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Patience Worth

1883-1937/AmericanAlthough Patience Worth was reluctant to report her family history, she intimated that she was born "across the sea" in Dorsetshire, England in 1649. Her father was John Worth , her mother Anne. She lived as a spinster in a small village in…

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