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The blessed damozel lean'd out
From the gold bar of Heaven;
Her eyes were deeper than the depth
Of waters still'd at even;
She had three lilies in her hand,
And the stars in her hair were seven.

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Blessed Damozel (1870)

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Cf. the original (1850 version) | Her blue grave eyes were deeper much Than a deep water, even.

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And round his heart one strangling golden hair.

I have been here before,
But when or how I cannot tell:
I know the grass beyond the door,
The sweet, keen smell,
The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.

Thou fill'st from the wingèd chalice of the soul
Thy lamp, O Memory, fire-wingèd to its goal.

To Eve's womb, from our sweet to-morrow,
God shall greatly multiply sorrow.

If the light is
It is because God said 'Let there be light.'

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