<h3><SPAN name="Semper_Eadem" id="Semper_Eadem"></SPAN>Semper Eadem</h3>
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"From whence it comes, you ask, this gloom acute,<br/>
Like waves that o'er the rocky headland fall?"<br/>
—When once our hearts have gathered in their fruit,<br/>
To live is a curse! a secret known to all,<br/>
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A grief, quite simple, nought mysterious,<br/>
And like your joy—for all, both loud and shrill,<br/>
Nay cease to clamour, be not e'er so curious!<br/>
And yet although your voice is sweet, be still!<br/>
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Be still, O soul, with rapture ever rife!<br/>
O mouth, with the childish smile! Far more than Life,<br/>
The subtle bonds of Death around us twine.<br/>
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Let—let my heart, the wine of falsehood drink,<br/>
And dream-like, deep within your fair eyes sink,<br/>
And in the shade of thy lashes long recline!<br/></p>
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