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LOVE'S STAND-POINT
There is a point at which the burning soul
Collects; as into one tremendous flame,
Each perilous desire and every aim,
Determining to sacrifice the whole.
Then all God's voices and his thunders roll
Like gathering tides across the shaken sand
Whereon this spirit's trembling feet do stand,
And the wide earth is as a parchment scroll
Engraved with fiery letters: “Thou shalt die
And be forgotten, even as a star
That flames, and it has vanished from the sky,—
Even as a comet gleaming from afar,
Approaching, and then hastening to fly,—
But Love is as the eternal spirits are.”
1871.
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