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Kiss me but once -- and in that space supreme / My whole dark life shall quiver to an end, / Sweet Death shall see my heart and comprehend / That life is crowned -- and in an endless gleam / Will fix the colour of the dying stream / That Life and Death may meet as friend with friend / An endless immortality to blend; / Kiss me but once, and so shall end my dream.
And then Love heard me and bestowed his kiss, / And straight I cried to Death: I will not die! / Earth is so fair when one remembers this; / Life is but just begun! Ah, come not yet! / The very world smiles up to kiss the sky / And in the grave one may forget -- forget.