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Escape me? / Never -- / Beloved! / While I am I, and you are you, / So long as the world contains us both, / Me the loving and you the loth, / While the one eludes, must the other pursue. / My life is a fault at last, I fear: / It seems too much like a fate, indeed! / Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed. / But what if I fail of my purpose here? / It is but to keep the nerves at strain, / To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, / And baffled, get up and begin again, -- / So the chase takes up one's life, that's all. / While, look but once from your farthest bound / At me so deep in the dust and dark, / No sooner the old hope goes to ground / Than a new one, straight to the selfsame mark, / I shape me -- / Ever / Removed!