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  Mine is a passion that can never change,

It is so sorrowful and sweet and strange,

That even from the very nightingale

I must conceal it—'tis so very strange.

''For lo! I love a woman this strange way:''

To be as dead without her, yet to stay,

A stubborn exile from felicity,

Far from her side until the Judgment Day.