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Were I a king, my crown of gold / I should not for a moment hold, / Did not thy brow its glory share, / Were thou not ever next my chair.
Were I a God, my heaven would be / One long, lone, vast sterility, / Eternal only in its woe / Did thou not all its purpose know.