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love: love itself, the spirit of love.
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edge: keeness.
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wink: close.
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int'rim: interim; i.e., the time that the poet and his beloved are separated.
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parts: separates. contracted new: newly engaged.
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Return of love: Perhaps both a return of the loved one and the return or intensification of the feeling of love.
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it: the "sad int'rim."