TRISTAN AND ISEULT
friend Tristan, Iseult my friend, for that bad ward I kept take here my body and my life, for through me and in that cup you have drunk not love alone, but love and death together."
The lovers held each other; life and desire trembled through their youth, and Tristan said, "Well then, come Death."
And as evening fell, upon the bark that heeled and ran to King Mark's land, they gave themselves up utterly to love.
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