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To love and to remember; that is good: / To love and to forget; that is not well: / To lapse from love to hatred; that is hell / And death and torment, rightly understood. / Soul dazed by love and sorrow, cheer thy mood; / More blest art thou than mortal tongue can tell: / Ring not thy funeral but thy marriage bell, / And salt with hope thy life's insipid food. / Love is the goal, love is the way we wend, / Love is our parallel unending line / Whose only perfect Parallel is Christ, / Beginning not begun, End without end: / For He Who hath the heart of God sufficed, / Can satisfy all hearts, -- yea, thine and mine.