1 Quotes by Alice Duer Miller (1874-1942) The White Cliffs

Why do we fall in love? I do believeThat virtue is the magnet, the small veinOf ore, the spark, the torch that we receive At birth, and that we render back again.That drop of godhood, like a precious stone,May shine the brightest in the tiniest flakeLavished to saints, to sinners not unknown;