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The Eternal Parting - ZaunköniG - 05.05.2012 The Eternal Parting I STAND alone with thee on Life's dark verge And scan with fearful gaze the gulfs beyond, Whilst thou with futile arms, lamenting, fond, Dost hold me from the deeps that would submerge Thy lover in their dim eternal surge - The deeps that reck not of love's holy bond Nor but with awful silence e'er respond To cries that loss from human hearts doth urge. Yet grieve thou not, Beloved! Mortal sight Serves but the uses of this mortal state: When we would look on what beyond it lies We but behold a vast and vacant night, That doth from our defect illusive rise To hide a sphere of joy immaculate. |