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BETROTHAL

Doubt itself could not distrust them,
Or resist their light!


Dear, without you, I have been
Poorer than the humblest beggar
Who against your door at nightfall
Kneeling, asked for bread:


I have gazed upon your face
And have felt such fear oppress me
That I trembled. From this moment,
Nothing fear I more!


For whatever perils come,
Nothing henceforth can divide us;
Neither follies nor ambitions—
Neither joys nor tears:



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