To wanderer lone a useful guide,
My strength of soul I never shall betray,
But true like thee, true steel, will I abide!
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No! not for thee flames thus my love’s hot blast;
Thy brilliant beauty is not thine for me.
In thee I love a passion of the past;
My long-lost youth I live again in thee.
For when at times entranced I gaze upon thee,
Fixing on thy bright eyes a yearning glance,