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How breaks my heart to hear you say / You feel the shadows fall about you! / The gods forefend / That fate, O friend! / I would not, I could not live without you! / You gone, what would become of me, / Your shadow, O beloved Maecenas? / We've shared the mirth -- / And sweets of earth -- / Let's share the pangs of death between us!
I should not dread Chinaera's breath / Nor any threat of ghost infernal; / Nor fear nor pain / Should part us twain -- / For so have willed the powers eternal.