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Cling closer, closer, life to life,
Cling closer, heart to heart;
The time will come, my own wed Wife,
When you and I must part!
Let nothing break our band but Death,
For in the world above
'Tis the breaker Death that soldereth
Our ring of Wedded Love.

— Gerald Massey

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The time shall come
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This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above,
And if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.

This World; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

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