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38.

PRIMEVAL my love for the woman I love,

O bride ! O wife ! more resistless, more enduring
than I can tell, the thought of you !

Then separate, as disembodied, the purest born,

The ethereal, the last athletic reality, my consolation,

I ascend—I float in the regions of your love, O man,

O sharer of my roving life.

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