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"Qui primavera sempre ed ogni frutto. " -- Dante. / "Ragionando con meco ed io con lui. " -- Petrarca.
"Love me, for I love you" -- and answer me, / "Love me, for I love you" -- so shall we stand / As happy equals in the flowering land / Of love, that knows not a dividing sea. / Love builds the house on rock and not on sand, / Love laughs what while the winds rave desperately; / And who hath found love's citadel unmanned? / And who hath held in bonds love's liberty? / My heart's a coward though my words are brave -- / We meet so seldom, yet we surely part / So often; there's a problem for your art! / Still I find comfort in his Book, who saith, / Though jealousy be cruel as the grave, / And death be strong, yet love is strong as death.