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 1 1|         thy Christ—say, must he love no other?~ ~ NEAR. He may—
 2 1|        must! ’Tis Christ says, “Love thy brother,’~70~Yet on
 3 1|     resign~95~If but Pauline—my love—would give consent!~ ~Else
 4 1|      needs must go, Pauline! My love, good-bye!~ ~I go but to
 5 1|     heart! Let this content thy love!~ ~ PAUL. You love and yet
 6 1|  content thy love!~ ~ PAUL. You love and yet you leave me. What
 7 1|    dreary mystery!~120~ POLY. I love thee more than self—than
 8 1|        needs must listen, for I love! Ah, me!~ ~ POLY. Take courage,
 9 1|      tis but for an hour,~ ~Thy love must draw me back, for love
10 1|     love must draw me back, for love hath power~130~O’er all
11 1|     loves thee, lady!~145~ PAUL.Love should mate with trusts;~ ~
12 1|            He loves thee with a love will never die,~ ~Then,
13 1|      dear wife—did once another love!~ ~Nay, start not, shrink
14 1|          Ah! memory~ ~May spare love linked with death a tear,
15 1|     STRAT. Ah! I must wish that love the day had won!~ ~ PAUL.
16 1|         195~Yet say not that my love was weak or vain!~ ~Our
17 1|       made Pauline his bride;~ ~Love might have bound me to Severus’
18 1|         wife.~ ~ STRAT. Thy new love true and tender as the old:—~ ~
19 1|    heard his voice,—~ 225~‘Give love, that is my due, to him—
20 1|       sacrifice, his thanks and love.~ ~ FELIX. Ah, Fortune,
21 1|        heart was fond, but duty love betrayed.~ ~How surely thy
22 1|      alone, one hope remains,~ ~Love held him fast, relax not
23 1|        him fast, relax not thou love’s chains.~ 320~O Love, my
24 1|      thou love’s chains.~ 320~O Love, my sometime foe, forgive,
25 1|         PAUL. I will not, for I love!—and love is blind.~ ~Before
26 1|       will not, for I love!—and love is blind.~ ~Before his kingly
27 1|       dear the victory.~ ~Here, love, my curse! Here, dearest
28 2|     loved me once,—but does she love me now?~ ~On that sweet
29 2|     trouble see—~ ~Who hope for love undimmed, for ecstasy?~15~
30 2|        be mine to claim,~20~Her love the boon I crave; all else
31 2|        that dearest name!~ ~Her love was virgin gold! O ne’er
32 2|         doubly naught till I my love embrace.~35~In every war
33 2|           Say, was she cold? My love! My only life!~ ~ FABIAN.
34 2|         hand that wounds I kiss—love vanquishes despair;~ ~Fate
35 2|   Hard-wrung, acquitted,—his my love alway!~ ~Who has my hand,
36 2|        the wings~110~Of soaring love, who mocks the wealth of
37 2|       One poor faint sigh cures love’s infirmity!~ ~Thy heart
38 2|       In easy flow can pass thy love new-born~ ~From cold indifference
39 2|       mate~ ~Of god or monster, love, aversion, hate.~ ~This
40 2|         Sure, reason finds that love his easy prey~ ~With Lethe
41 2|           Else, how to bear the love that only mates with grief?~ ~
42 2|         wear!~ 195~Farewell, my love, farewell; I go to prove
43 2|        woe my weal!~ ~ NEAR. In love with death?~ 300~ POLY.For
44 2|     death?~ 300~ POLY.For Him I love I die!~ ~He died for me!
45 2|        dear sake!’~ ~Alas, that love of thine, now weak and poor,~ ~
46 2|        while mine are weak; thy love is fresh, unfeigned,—~ 350~
47 3|        haunts me—oh, I know his love,~ ~Yet hopeless love must
48 3|        his love,~ ~Yet hopeless love must mate with jealousy,—~ ~
49 3|       valour seeks a sword, and love—revenge.~ ~One fears to
50 3|      His kisses poison, and his love—disgrace!~ ~Wretch, coward,
51 3|      head;—~ ~Yet embers of old love still faintly glow,~ ~And
52 3|     curséd friend, who, in dear love’s despite,~ ~Has torn him
53 3|     peace and blessing know who love and seek His face.~ ~‘His
54 3|      the man thou crown’st with love!~155~ PAUL. Ne’er vainly
55 3|         boon denied by father’s love!~ ~ FELIX. My love too plain—
56 3|     father’s love!~ ~ FELIX. My love too plain—myself too weakly
57 3|           My duty—to a father’s love betrayed—~ ~Hath of thy
58 3|      their courage high,~ ~They love the cross,—so, for the cross,
59 3|          In death, for Him they love, they rapture find.~ ~They
60 3|       at thy word~ ~I gave both love and duty; what I give~ ~
61 3|         my soul must kill;~ 300~Love—hate—fear—pain: I am of
62 3|       base my soul I scorn.~ ~I love the foolish wretch who is
63 3|     must excuse~ 315~A father’s love—oh, he will not refuse!~ ~
64 3|         All weapons possible to love and war,~ ~And those who
65 3|     must.~ ~Can dark despair to love and hope give place~ ~To
66 4|           Disdain~ ~All Earthly love,~ ~To seek above~70~A holier
67 4|         70~A holier fire!~ ~Oh, Love that passeth knowledge be
68 4|       save thyself, to thee, my love, are friends:~ ~Love but
69 4|         my love, are friends:~ ~Love but thyself, love me,—thy
70 4|    friends:~ ~Love but thyself, love me,—thy torment ends.~95~
71 4|           What life is this men love? An idle, empty dream,~ ~
72 4|        Another Father mine! His love most dear~ ~Removes me from
73 4|        my lord!~ ~They say that love has wings, and all they
74 4|      say is true,~ ~For all thy love has flown; yet can I ne’
75 4|    death that kills, and let my love~ ~From Heaven woo her to
76 4|      PAUL. Oh, leave illusions! Love me!~ ~ POLY.Thee I love~
77 4|         Love me!~ ~ POLY.Thee I love~ 210~Far more than self,
78 4|         God above!~ ~ PAUL. For love’s dear sake, ah, listen
79 4|         my prayer!~ ~ POLY. For love’s dear sake—await the answer
80 4|  strange rival to a wife’s pure love!~ 220~ POLY. This world
81 4|       seek the world! and yet I love thee ever!~ ~ PAUL. Yes,
82 4|         thee—yet, who would not love~ ~A face that must the great
83 4|     shame would memory turn, as love must yield to hate!~ ~But
84 4|           She, who by thy great love was not unmoved,~ ~Of thee,
85 4|        while I madly shriek, ‘O love, be kind!’~ ~Pauline, death-stricken,
86 4|    these dear eyes,~ ~Because I love them, o’er love tyrannise?~ ~’
87 4|       Because I love them, o’er love tyrannise?~ ~’Tis not enough
88 5|      close his ear,~30~Severus’ love is hate—his peace is strife—~ ~
89 5|       done my part, and win his love.~ ~Here comes the man~ ~
90 5|            And lover’s heart to love an ear should lend.~ ~Who
91 5|   myself to me thy weal!~150~My love would never wound, it seeks
92 5|    crushed for thee~ ~My former love: that I disdained might
93 5|    victory won,—~160~I did that love undo—to be myself undone!~ ~
94 5|       shed—breathed for thee!~ ~Love is too weak a word—I thee
95 5|      Tis tyranny, not law, such love to part.~ ~Oh, not a tyrant,
96 5|   Forgive,—give back—restore my love to me!~ ~ FELIX. Dear child,
97 5| Nearchus felt the flame,~ ~Then love, forsooth, thy plea—(profanéd
98 5|          speed me to my lord—my love—my all!~ ~My husband calls