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why did you go ?

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WHY DID YOU GO?

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Death called—but why did you go?

Did you not know

That life is better than death,

That snatches the breath

Out of joy?—that love is better than death?

Did you not understand

How guarded the Land

Where death leads?—that howe'er the heart yearn,

One can never return

From the gloom

Of that dwelling-place lone that doth hold and entomb?

O my sweet!

Might I follow your feet—

Afar from the sun and the bloom-scented air,

I would open once more

The inexorable door,

And drink of dark Lethe, your prison to share!