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 draw thee to him, and make thee his own. This illusion will not hold thee in thraldom for ever."

If is the song-book of youth and the romance of the young lover who is satisfied with a flower for itself, or for its token of love's happiness, to be realised on earth in a day or night,  is the book of the old lover who is in love with heavenly desire. He cannot be satisfied, but must always wish to transcend life and sensation through death, and attain not in the sense of extinction, but, the joy eternal, the realisation of love in its last abode:

Those who have heard any of these songs sung to their original tunes, or will, as has