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So that such perfect unison Exists we are not two but one; Or like two harps—touch one, you make The spirit of its fellow wake.
Love 'twixt the sexes scarce may be From all attaint of passion free; But ours is love without desire, A pure and unconsuming fire; With no base element's alloy No surfeit can its power destroy, Which lasts, with full assurance crowned, Like light and heat together bound.
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