Summary: Love is stronger than death and cannot be bought or destroyed. It burns like fire, cannot be drowned by water, and remains firm through all things.
Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for stern as death is love, relentless as the nether world is devotion; its flames are a blazing fire.
Deep waters cannot quench love, nor floods sweep it away. Were one to offer all he owns to purchase love, he would be roundly mocked.
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