It lies not in our power to love or hate,
For will in us is overruled by fate.
When two are stripped, long ere the course begin,
We wish that one should love, the other win;
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Have I not heard that last line before? Even so 'tis a good poem. Try my sonnet -Sonnet Beyond Love. Adeline