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“Yet, yet I love!—From Abelard it came, / And Eloisa yet must kiss the name.”

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Pope gives the words to a woman who has been separated from her lover for years and shut into a convent. The second clause is the cruel one: she has tried to love God instead and finds that the old name still shapes her mouth, which is what distance does to a name.

Source: Eloisa to Abelard

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