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OBERON
As drinking-cups whereof old rhymers tell, / In twilight ages all with wonders rife, / Were given, by mystic herb and midnight spell, / The gift to summon Love-to summon Life! -
So this for thee, lest aught should come between, / This little claspéd cup, and charm of wine / Love singing trod with feet of heavenly sheen, / I set away: it shall be always thine.
Thine to restore, with magic strong and strange, / The might of meeting eyes and near, warm breath; / That there shall be no Time nor any Change, / Nor any room for such a thing as Death!