The love duration of   Ferdinand Freiligrath

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Love as long as you can love
  O love as long as you love!
  The hour is coming, the hour is coming
  Where you stand at graves and lament.

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  And make your heart glow
  And love cherishes and love carries,
  As long as he has another heart
  Reaches warmly in love.

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  And whoever opens up his chest to you
  O do him what you can, too kind,
  And make him happy every hour
  And don't give him a dull hour!

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  And watch your tongue
  A bad word is soon said.
" Oh god, I didn't mean it badly! "
  But the other goes and complains.

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  O love, as long as you can love
  O love, as long as you love!
  The hour is coming, the hour is coming
  Where you stand at graves and lament.

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  Then you kneel down at the tomb
  And hide your eyes, cloudy and wet, -
You never see the other, -
In the long, damp churchyard grass.

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  And you say: " O look down on me,
  Who weeps here at your grave!
  Forgive that I offended you
  Oh god, I didn't mean it badly! "

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  But he neither sees nor hears you
  do not come to receive him gladly;
  The mouth that often kissed you speaks
  Never again: " I forgave you long ago! "

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  He did, forgave you a long time ago
  But many hot tears fell
  For you and for your bitter word.
  But still - he rests and has reached his goal.

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  O love, as long as you can love
  O love, as long as you love!
  The hour is coming, the hour is coming
  Where you stand at graves and lament.

Ferdinand Freiligrath