This cheered Robert and he resolved to have more faith, realizing that while he could not see or understand Marie's action he must have faith and love and trust her, and trust that time would bring understanding and solve the problem. He read another poem by Aubrey de Vere, and these words seemed to sink into his heart as he read them: "Hid it; dropt it on the moors! Lost it, and you cannot find it-- My own heart I want, not yours You have bound and must unbound it. Set it free then from your net, We will love, sweet--but not yet! Fling it from you--we are strong Love is trouble, love is folly; Love, that makes an old heart young, Makes a young heart melancholy." Robert felt that love might be trouble, but that love was the greatest and sweetest thing in the world and that he would go thru any troubles in the world, suffer anything, only to regain Marie and her love. As Robert slowly turned the pages of the little book, his eyes fell upon another poem, "Courage" by Thos. F. Porter: "What if the morn no joy to you shall bring, No gleam of sunbeam shine across your way; What if no bird one joyous note shall sing Into your listening ear thru all the day! What if no word of comfort you shall hear As thru the hours long you toil and strive; What if to you no vision bright appear To keep your hungry heart and soul alive! What if the blest companionship men crave Come not to you thru all the day's long length, But, bound and fettered even as a slave, Within yourself you have to find your strength! And if, when you have toiled and wrought alone, The sweet reward you sought you do not gain, And find the hoped-for bread is but stone, In that sad hour for grief, should you complain Ah no! It matters not if shade or sun, Or good or ill, your efforts shall attend; In doing you have but your duty done As best you knew--and should do to the end." He eagerly devoured the words one by one, because he was looking for something to give him courage to go thru this terrible ordeal. He thought that this poem would do. It surely had been written for him in this very hour of trouble and realized with Job he must find his strength within himself and have courage, hope and faith. He then read another little poem from the book; "Not in Vain" by Emily Dickinson: "If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain: If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain."