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35
XXVII.
[Can this our Love, as the old sage dared to deem]
Can this our Love, as the old sage dared to deem,Be but soft prelude to some grand choral strain,
A first link in the interminable chain
That penetrates the world's eternal scheme?
Ah could I credit the transcendent dream,
Then clothed in glory, hand in hand, we twain
Should be exalted on from reign to reign
Till throned on truth above the things that seem.
But love so pure would be a solitude.
To love the good alone, no more love thee;
Rather would I be bound than so made free,
And rather have, by human doubt pursued,
A human heart to which my soul might flee
And fold her wings and dream, though dreams delude.
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