"Come, let us make love deathless, thou and I, Seeing that our footing on the Earth is brief— Seeing that her multitudes sweep out to die Mocking at all that passes their belief."
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"Come, let us make love deathless", in Deirdre Wed, and Other Poems (London: Methuen & Co., 1901), p. 69
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Herbert Trench
Frederic Herbert Trench (12 November 1865 – 11 June 1923) was an Irish poet.
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