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SONNET: IN SEPARATION, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bliss that happy lovers dream will bloom
Last Line: Without desire, as one might love a star.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme


The bliss that happy lovers dream will bloom
Forever new shall scarce outlast the year:
Their calmer kisses wake nor smile nor tear;
Love's nesting-place already is its tomb,
Since sated eyes grow weary of their prey,
And constant vows their own best hopes betray,
And love's June lily, marred but by a breath,
Falls where the other lilies lie in death,
Therefore the doom of land and sea that bar
My life from hers I do accept. At least
No passion will rise jaded from the feast,
My pure respect no passing fires can stain;
So without hope I love her, without pain,
Without desire, as one might love a star.





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