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A LOVE than love more pure,
⁠Friendship than friendship dearer,
This feeling shall endure
⁠Through life and draw us nearer.

A day without day's heat,
⁠A night without night's terrors,
A friendship yet more sweet
⁠Than love, without love's errors.

Whene'er my soul is wrung
⁠With a delicious sorrow,
By songs of heroes sung,
⁠From them new joy I borrow,

Since thou my hero art,
⁠And thou canst me inspire
With courage e'en to part
⁠From thee, if Fate require.

Though cut by Duty's knife,
⁠Our love's chain joins unbroken:
Though kept apart by life,
⁠We meet in prayers unspoken.

A love than love more pure,
⁠Friendship than friendship dearer,
This feeling shall endure,
⁠Till glad Death brings us nearer.