The aim of all my doing, my desire

Of being, my life by day, by night my dream:

Love, my sweet melancholy, my distress,

My pain, my doubt, my trouble, my despair,

My only folly and unhappiness,

And in my careless moments still my care:

O love, sweet love, earthly love, love divine,

Sayst thou to-day, O love, that thou art mine?

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The dark and serious angel, who so long