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The Lover in Hades
PersephoneNow take and eat, and have release;
And memory, and longing leave;
Then shall the seasons pass in peace
Wherein thou dost not grieve.
Thou wouldst not suffer for love's sake
Longer, and longer idly crave?
The Lover
The pomegranate I will not take,
Nor drink the mystic wave:
I had a lady, passing dear,
And fair, beneath earth's windy skies—
And but one joy I fail of here—
To look into her eyes.
And if she keep my memory,
I know mine shall be sadder yet.
But if she quite forgetteth me,
Yet will I not forget!
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