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Make the low nature better by your throes!

O LYRIC LOVE

(From The Ring and the Book, 1868: conclusion of Book First)

O lyric Love, half angel and half bird, And all a wonder and a wild desire, Boldest of hearts that ever braved the sun, Took sanctuary within the holier blue, And sang a kindred soul out to his 1395

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Yet human at the red-ripe of the heart, When the first summons from the darkling earth

Reached thee amid thy chambers, blanched

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And bared them of the glory, to drop

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To toil for man, to suffer, or to die: 1400 This is the same voice, can thy soul know

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Hail, then, and hearken from the realms of help!

Never may I commence my song, my due To God who best taught song by gift of thee,

Give earth yourself, go up for gain Except with bent head and beseeching above!

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Art that breaks bounds, gets soaring- Who, then, dares hold, emancipated thus,
His fellow shall continue bound? Not I,
Who live, love, labor freely, nor discuss
A brother's right to freedom. - That is
"Why."

I shall pray: "Fugitive as precious, Minutes which passed, return, remain!

Let earth's old life once more enmesh us,

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