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Song For 'Tasso'.

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1.     I loved - alas! our life is love;     But when we cease to breathe and move     I do suppose love ceases too.     I thought, but not as now I do,     Keen thoughts and bright of linked lore,     Of all that men had thought before.     And all that Nature shows, and more.     2.     And still I love and still I think,     But strangely, for my heart can drink     The dregs of such despair, and live,     And love;...     And if I think, my thoughts come fast,     I mix the present with the past,     And each seems uglier than the last.     3.     Sometimes I see before me flee     A silver spirit's form, like thee,     O Leonora, and I sit     ...still watching it,     Till by the grated casement's ledge     It fades, with such a sigh, as sedge     Breathes o'er the breezy streamlet's edge.

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