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The Death Of Love

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So Love is dead, the Love we knew of old!     And in the sorrow of our hearts' hushed halls     A lute lies broken and a flower falls;     Love's house stands empty and his hearth lies cold.     Lone in dim places, where sweet vows were told,     In walks grown desolate, by ruined walls     Beauty decays; and on their pedestals     Dreams crumble and th' immortal gods are mold.     Music is slain or sleeps; one voice alone,     One voice awakes, and like a wandering ghost     Haunts all the echoing chambers of the Past -     The voice of Memory, that stills to stone     The soul that hears; the mind, that, utterly lost,     Before its beautiful presence stands aghast.

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