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Fragment: "Amor Aeternus".

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Wealth and dominion fade into the mass     Of the great sea of human right and wrong,     When once from our possession they must pass;     But love, though misdirected, is among     The things which are immortal, and surpass     All that frail stuff which will be - or which was.

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