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Love in a life and after life -- _the Sleep_! / And we hang on a word, a look, and keep / The pulses throbbing, -- make the Spark burn low, -- / And close the Book, to laugh perhaps, to weep / Most surely! if, oh gods! we may but know / Love in life!
Our burning hands we raise / For dear palms' clasp, and kisses on the lips, / And close embrace. / We give our nights and days, / In the one draught delectable our spirits steep, / Forgetting -- (whilst the lights of Love eclipse -- ) / _The Sleep_.