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EARTH AND HEAVEN
III. HEAVEN ON EARTH
Now Heaven on Earth begins. The golden corn
Is bright to me as those angelic plumes
Whose lustre ravishes, and then consumes:
Now, many a great triumphant rose is born.
Along the meadows at the crimson morn
The sun flames, o'er the trembling gossamer:
My life is now at peace,—and all through her
By whom Love's seamless robe was rent and torn.
Is bright to me as those angelic plumes
Whose lustre ravishes, and then consumes:
Now, many a great triumphant rose is born.
Along the meadows at the crimson morn
The sun flames, o'er the trembling gossamer:
My life is now at peace,—and all through her
By whom Love's seamless robe was rent and torn.
Now she is with me: heaven is in her smile
And all earth's blossomy beauty in her hands;
And all the roses of the rose-red lands
Upon her lips, and every birdlike wile
Within her speech: an angel-woman stands
Before me, snow-white,—free as flower from guile.
And all earth's blossomy beauty in her hands;
And all the roses of the rose-red lands
Upon her lips, and every birdlike wile
Within her speech: an angel-woman stands
Before me, snow-white,—free as flower from guile.
1876.
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