Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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LINES FROM A MS. POEM.
Once more to look upon those Soul-like eyes,To see the train of thoughts there kindling rise,
In Beauty-breathing rich development,
As though mysteriously thus brightly blent,
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How elements to elements may flow!
If such indeed the light of thought may be
Rare Essence, which is all unchained and free,
And yet that eye itself as wonderous seems,
A Sun of pure and spiritual beams;
Thought cannot finer be than that keen ray
Which ever seems with more than life to play.
How wonderously entwin'd in unity
The Worlds of Soul and Substance seem to be!
Even thus, with rarest subtlety indeed,
A strange, and sweet, and dream-compelling creed
Ne'er framed before suggesting to the mind,
Such vague and mystic creed by fancy twined,
As thought can scarce well compass—and still less
Can words of laboured language e'er express,
That ever fail at need to speak and show
Our finest feelings—loveliest dreams below!
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