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My love, I do not ask an oath from you,
What are the words that you could say to me?
I want no lover swearing to be true
With broken liens on immortality.

My love, I do not want an oath from you
Robbing our silence of its sanctity.
Where could we put a word between us two?
A chain to clang the charm of liberty.

I would not make a prison of my soul.
How could I love you if you were not free
Even of my love? And you yourself the whole
Repudiation of the blasphemy

That stains with words the silences of love.
We will go out together and alone,
And to ourselves and to the whole world prove
That a caged bird is just a bird that's flown?

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