What thou art is mine;
Our state cannot be severed, we are one,
One flesh; to lose thee were to lose my self.

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. "Sonnets from the Portuguese." Aurora Leigh and Other Poems, edited by John Robert Glorney Bolton and Julia Bolton Holloway. Penguin Classics, 1996, sonnet 43.