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The Separation.
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Ask me not what my Love shall do or be(Love which is Soul to Body, and Soul of Me)
When I am sep'arated from thee;
Alas, I might as easily show,
What after Death the Soul will do;
'Twill last, I'm sure, and that is all we know.
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The thing call'd Soul will never stir nor move,But all that while a liveless Carkass prove,
For 'tis the Body of my Love;
Not that my Love will fly away,
But still continue, as, they say,
Sad troubled Ghosts about their Graves do stray.
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