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+------ Thema: Is love a fancy, or a feeling? No, (/showthread.php?tid=16596)
Is love a fancy, or a feeling? No, - ZaunköniG - 15.07.2007
Is love a fancy, or a feeling? No,
It is immortal as immaculate Truth.
‘Tit not a blossom, shed as soon as youth
Drops from the stem of life – for it will grow
It barren regions, where no waters flow,
Nor ray of promise cheats the pensive gloom.
A darkling fire, faint hovering o’er a tomb,
That but itself and darkness nought doth show,
Is my love’s being, - yet it cannot die,
Nor will it change, though all the changed beside;
Though fairest beauty be no longer fair,
Though vows be false, and faith itself deny,
Though sharp enjoyment be a suicide,
And hope a spectre in a ruin bare.