Men could not part us with their worldly jars,
Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend;
Our hands would touch for all the mountain-bars,–
And, heaven being rolled between us at the end,
We should but vow the faster for the stars.
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Behold and see
What a great heap of grief lay hid in me,
And how the red wild sparkles dimly burn
Through the ashen greyness.
Sonnets from the Portuguese