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Come, let us make love deathless, thou and I, / Seeing that our footing on the Earth is brief -- / Seeing that her multitudes sweep out to die / Mocking at all that passes their belief. / For standard of our love not theirs we take: / If we go hence to-day / Fill the high cup that is so soon to break / With richer wine than they!
Ay, since beyond these walls no heavens there be / Joy to revive or wasted youth repair, / I'll not bedim the lovely flame in thee / Nor sully the sad splendour that we wear. / Great be the love, if with the lover dies / Our greatness past recall, / And nobler for the fading of those eyes / The world seen once for all.