<P> Tinker and Lowry conclude that this "seem (s) to indicate that the last nine lines of the poem as we know it were already in existence when the portion regarding the ebb and flow of the sea at Dover was composed ." This would make the manuscript "a prelude to the concluding paragraph" of the poem in which "there is no reference to the sea or tides". </P> <Dl> <Dd> <Dl> <Dd> <Dl> <Dd> Ah, love, let us be true </Dd> <Dd> To one another! for the world, which seems </Dd> <Dd> To lie before us like a land of dreams, </Dd> <Dd> So various, so beautiful, so new, </Dd> <Dd> Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, </Dd> <Dd> Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help from pain; </Dd> <Dd> And we are here as on a darkling plain </Dd> <Dd> Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, </Dd> <Dd> Where ignorant armies clash by night . </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> <Dl> <Dd> <Dl> <Dd> Ah, love, let us be true </Dd> <Dd> To one another! for the world, which seems </Dd> <Dd> To lie before us like a land of dreams, </Dd> <Dd> So various, so beautiful, so new, </Dd> <Dd> Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, </Dd> <Dd> Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help from pain; </Dd> <Dd> And we are here as on a darkling plain </Dd> <Dd> Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, </Dd> <Dd> Where ignorant armies clash by night . </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> <Dl> <Dd> <Dl> <Dd> Ah, love, let us be true </Dd> <Dd> To one another! for the world, which seems </Dd> <Dd> To lie before us like a land of dreams, </Dd> <Dd> So various, so beautiful, so new, </Dd> <Dd> Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, </Dd> <Dd> Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help from pain; </Dd> <Dd> And we are here as on a darkling plain </Dd> <Dd> Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, </Dd> <Dd> Where ignorant armies clash by night . </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> </Dl>

Ah love let us be true to one another meaning