 | [Poems by Cary in] The Poetical Works Of Alice and Phoebe Cary |  |
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[Laugh, you who never had]
“Laugh, you who never hadYour dead come back; but do not take from me
The harmless comfort of my foolish dream:
That these our mortal eyes,
Which outwardly reflect the earth and skies,
Do introvert upon eternity;
And that the shapes you deem
Imaginations just as clearly fall,
Each from its own divine original,
And through some subtle element of light,
Upon the inward spiritual eye,
As do the things which round about them lie,
Gross and material, on the external sight.”
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