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I cannot think that thou shouldst pass away,

Whose life to mine is an eternal law,

A piece of nature that can have no flaw,

A new and certain sunrise every day:

But, if thou art to be another ray

About the Sun of Life, and art to live

Free from what part of thee was fugitive,

The debt of Love I will more fully pay,

Not downcast with the thought of thee so high,

But rather raised to be a nobler man,

And more divine in my humanity,

As knowing that the waiting eyes which scan

My life are lighted by a purer being,

And ask high, calm-browed deeds, with it agreeing.