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Take me also, make me yours, as a woman
Who knows love's torture, who is burned with the same burning,
Only can take the lover herself has chosen
Until his broken sobs mix with her love-plaint.

Take me thus and I care not if death come after,
For to-night there shall be no tears, no wearing sorrow,
Only our kisses and whispers and stabbing heart-beats.

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