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Beauty is a fading flower,
Truth is but a wizard's tower,
Where a solemn death-bell tolls,
And a forest round it rolls.

— Alfred Noyes The Flower of Old Japan and Other Poems (1907)

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Heart of my heart, the world is young;
Love lies hidden in every rose!

The Golden Hynde and Other Poems (1914)

Carol, every violet has
Heaven for a looking-glass!

The Flower of Old Japan and Other Poems (1907)

Heart of my heart, we are one with the wind,
One with the clouds that are whirled o'er the lea,
One in many, O broken and blind,
One as the waves are at one with the sea!

The Golden Hynde and Other Poems (1914)

One, we are one with the song to-day,
One with the clover that scents the world,
One with the Unknown, far away,
One with the stars, when earth grows old.

The Golden Hynde and Other Poems (1914)

Your dreamers may dream it
The shadow of a dream,
Your sages may deem it
A bubble on the stream;
Yet our kingdom draweth nigher
With each dawn and every day,
Through the earthquake and the fire
"Love will find out the way."

Drake, an English Epic (1908)

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Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

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André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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