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Silvia, let us from the crowd retire
For what to you and me
(Who but each other do desire)
Is all that here we see?

Apart we'll live, though not alone;
For, who alone can call
Those who in desarts live with One
If in that One they've All?

The world a vast Meander is,
Where hearts confus'dly stray;10
Where few do hit, whilst thousands miss
The happy mutual way:

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