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Too tough! The spirit will survive, / It keeps this mortal coil alive; / Love too, that yearns to meet the day / When you will come and with me stay.
There is no death that love can fear -- / Love never yet upon a bier / Lay in the sleep of death, for life / Is stronger far than any strife.
Love is the light which burns and shines / When woe of spirit undermines / The thought, and our lives go awry, / And days are long in passing by.
Love is the spirit's soul, and glows / Through all the pain a mortal knows, / And death cannot its might assail, / Nor bitterness its courage quail.
Dear love, my flesh cries out to thee, / My spirit's eyes her face would see, / My mind is mad for need of her, / My love is naked to the air.