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 * Close though it be
 * The joint is free;

So, when love's yoke is on,
 * It must not gall,
 * Or fret at all

With hard oppression.


 * But it must play
 * Still either way,

And be, too, such a yoke
 * As not too wide
 * To overslide,

Or be so strait to choke.


 * So we who bear
 * This beam must rear

Ourselves to such a height
 * As that the stay
 * Of either may

Create the burden light.


 * And as this round
 * Is nowhere found

To flaw, or else to sever:
 * So let our love
 * As endless prove,

And pure as gold for ever.