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…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.

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There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their fri...more

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The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy our youth, and then come to the threshold of old a...more

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And empty words are evil.

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Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and ...more

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but sing no more this bitter tale that wears my heart away