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''Immortal Beloved'': Translated As ''Eternally Beloved''

Immortal Belovéd, if in despair      
     we grow listless with Love's unmet desire,    
and high emotion oft' marks our affair, 
     we fail to love; and begin to expire.    
'Ere long, lest our unexpressed Love's well fed      
     (often), it'll thus take another lover;    
for man loves woman, and woman loves man:        
     but Love discards them both when it's over.   
But, with hope, Love can over-run fore'er
     (for us), remain, and survive misfortune;
to quit now would be our only error:  
     therefore, let us thus make our bond immune?  
If Love can o'erflow and be ne'er-ending,
Beloved, then we, too, are worth defending.

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