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They sin who tell us love can die; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. . . . . . Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth. . . . . . It soweth here with toil and care, But the harvest-time of love is there.

They sin who tell us love can die; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. . . . . . Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth. . . . . . It soweth here with toil and care, But the harvest-time of love is there.

Approximate author period: c. 1808 AD · industrial

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Author or tradition
Robert Southey
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Approximate author period: c. 1808 AD · industrial
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Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)

The Curse of Kehama. Canto x. Stanza 10.

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