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He bent above: so still her breath / What air she breathed he could not say, / Whether in worlds of life or death: / So softly ebbed away, away / The life that had been light to him, / So fled her beauty leaving dim / The emptying chambers of his heart / Thrilled only by the pang and smart, / The dull and throbbing agony / That suffers still, yet knows not why.
Love's immortality so blind / Dreams that all things with it conjoined / Must share with it immortal day: / But not of this -- but not of this -- / The touch, the eyes, the laugh, the kiss, / Fall from it and it goes its way.