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Unspeakable are the felicities]
Unspeakable are the felicitiesOf labour and long endurance for the Truth:
Love's sea at flood in the rash heart of Youth,
Freedom and spiritual ecstasies!
Incredible are the discoveries
Of Life's adventure: on the high, outcast,
Star-severed pathways Life may stand at last
Thrilled witness of the soul's divinities!
And always Night beyond!—infinite, strange,
Teeming, inviolate, where the peaks of thought,
Flushed by an unseen Dawn, superbly range
Down the long frontiers whence the restless soul,
Forward, beyond the last and best it sought,
Still finds a path, a prospect and a goal!
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