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 SONG

LOVE than love more pure, Friendship than friendship dearer, This feeling shall endure Through life and draw us nearer.

A day without day's heat, A night without night's terrors, A friendship yet more sweet Than love, without love's errors.

Whene'er my soul is wrung With a delicious sorrow, By songs of heroes sung, From them new joy I borrow,

Since thou my hero art, And thou canst me inspire With courage e'en to part From thee, if Fate require.

Though cut by Duty's knife, Our love's chain joins unbroken: Though kept apart by life, We meet in prayers unspoken.

A love than love more pure, Friendship than friendship dearer, This feeling shall endure, Till glad Death brings us nearer.