What Whispered Love The Day He Fled? Ah! This Was What Love Whispered; "You Sought To Hold Me With A Chain; I Fly To Prove Such Holding Vain. "You Bound Me Burdens, And I Bore The Burdens Hard, The Burdens Sore; I Bore Them All Unmurmuring, For Love Can Bear A Harder Thing. "You Taxed Me Often, Teased Me, Wept; I Only Smiled, And Still I Kept Through Storm And Sun And Night And Day, My Joyous, Viewless, Faithful Way. "But, Dear, Once Dearest, You And I This Day Have Parted Company. Love Must Be Free To Give, Defer, Himself Alone His Almoner. "As Free I Freely Poured My All, Enslaved I Spurn, Renounce My Thrall, Its Wages And Its Bitter Bread." Thus Whispered Love The Day He Fled!