DESPAIR
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Too tough! The spirit will survive, It keeps this mortal coil alive; Love too, that yearns to meet the day When you will come and with me stay. There is no death that love can fear— Love never yet upon a bier Lay in the sleep of death, for life Is stronger far than any strife. Love is the light which burns and shines When woe of spirit undermines The thought, and our lives go awry, And days are long in passing by. Love is the spirit’s soul, and glows Through all the pain a mortal knows, And death cannot its might assail, Nor bitterness its courage quail. Dear love, my flesh cries out to thee, My spirit’s eyes her face would see, My mind is mad for need of her, My love is naked to the air.