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"Amor che a nulla amato amar perdona. " -- Dante. / "Amor m'addusse in si gioiosa spene. " -- Petrarca.
O my heart's heart, and you who are to me / More than myself myself, God be with you, / Keep you in strong obedience leal and true / To Him whose noble service setteth free, / Give you all good we see or can foresee, / Make your joys many and your sorrows few, / Bless you in what you bear and what you do, / Yea, perfect you as He would have you be. / So much for you; but what for me, dear friend? / To love you without stint and all I can / To-day, to-morrow, world without an end; / To love you much and yet to love you more, / As Jordan at his flood sweeps either shore; / Since woman is the helpmeet made for man.