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The Good
The useful and the sweet the fair and true
Do grow together the same plant always
From truth, the root, the flower puts forth in view
With scent and beauty the design to praise.
Do grow together the same plant always
From truth, the root, the flower puts forth in view
With scent and beauty the design to praise.
And good the earth or wave that deep or thin
Gives all to all yet nothing takes away
Itself Itself forever holds within
The unfolded whole of all that can decay
Gives all to all yet nothing takes away
Itself Itself forever holds within
The unfolded whole of all that can decay
For Truth and Beauty are but tree or plant
And that we eat but fruit, and smell but flowers
The spirit cannot things of earth of long want
It dwells not in Time's autumn fading bowers
And that we eat but fruit, and smell but flowers
The spirit cannot things of earth of long want
It dwells not in Time's autumn fading bowers
But there where all in all the hand, the face
And breath like fragrance mingling with the air
Reveals a form that Perfect Love will trace
The Holy One within the House of Prayer.
And breath like fragrance mingling with the air
Reveals a form that Perfect Love will trace
The Holy One within the House of Prayer.
Poem No. 586; late 1839—early 1840
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