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LAST LOVE (ADAPTION OF NOVALILS' LAST WORDS), by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now for a last glad look upon life: my journey is ending
Last Line: Now she has made me free -- free to rejoice evermore.
Subject(s): Hardenberg, Friedrich L. (1772-1801); Love


Now for a last glad look upon life: my journey is ending:
Now this door that is Death quietly shuts me behind.
Thankful I hear Love's call -- the faithful call of a comrade:
Then all joyful am I, ready to give her my heart.
All through life it is Love hath been my counsellor only:
Hers be the praise alway if I have followed aright.
For as a mother awakes with kisses her slumbering baby,
As she first has a care -- as she alone understands --
So has Love been mine, has watched and tended and kissed me:
Near me when I was a child: near me till I was a man.
Thus, mid sorrow or doubt, I have clung to her, learning her lesson:
Now she has made me free -- free to rejoice evermore.





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