Have you not read
The words in my head
And I made part
Of your own heart?
We have been such as draw
The losing straw —
You of your gentleness
I of my rashness
Both of despair —
Yet still might share
This happy will:
To love despite and still
Never let us deny
The thing’s necessity
But, O, refuse
To choose
Where chance may seem to give
Love in alternative
Despite and Still was written by Samuel Barber & Robert Graves.