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| I sometimes wish I SOMETIMES wish that all the song and light That thrills or flashes through the realms of space, That all the loveliness of the day and night, The strength, the majesty, the charm, the grace; I sometimes wish that every wondrous gleam That lifts the darkness of our mortal life, The prophet's ecstasy, the poet's dream, The saint's desire, the hero's inward strife; I wish that from the future and the past, From heaven and earth, from every sphere and clime, My soul might draw these in and hold them fast, And be them all for one brief pulse of time. Then might I speak what ear has never heard, And tell my passion in one sovereign word.. |
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