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Poems

By Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

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LXXXII

['Tis not Love that is dead]

'Tis not Love that is dead,
But Hope, his sister fair.
They breathed the self-same air,
On the same food they fed.
The soul of Love with awful strength was filled
By Passion—but his sister, Hope, was killed.