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Love masters agony; the soul that seemed
Forsaken, feels her present God again,
And in her Father's arms
Contented dies away.

— John Keble The Christian Year (1827)

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When the shore is won at last,
Who will count the billows past?

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As fire is kindled by fire, so is a poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

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'Tis sweet, as year by year we lose
Friends out of sight, in faith to muse
How grows in Paradise our store.

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The trivial round, the common task,
Would furnish all we ought to ask.

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But when eve's silent footfall steals
Along the eastern sky,
And one by one to earth reveals
Those purer fires on high.

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