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In Youth I have Known One

How often we forget all time, when

Admiring Nature's universal throne;

Her woods - her winds - her mountains - the

Reply of Hers to Our intelligence!

I.

In youth I have known one with whom the Earth  In secret communing held - as he with it,

In daylight, and in beauty, from his birth:  Whose fervid, flickering torch of life was

From the sun and stars, whence he had drawn forth  A passionate light - such for his spirit was fit -And yet that spirit knew - not in the

Of its own fervour - what had o'er it power.                     II.

Perhaps it may be that my mind is wrought  To a fever by the moonbeam that hangs o'er,

But I will half believe that wild light fraught  With more of sovereignty than ancient

Hath ever told - or is it of a thought  The unembodied essence, and no

That with a quickening spell doth o'er us

As dew of the night time, o'er the summer grass?

II.

Doth o'er us pass, when as th' expanding eye  To the loved object - so the tear to the

Will start, which lately slept in apathy?  And yet it need not be - (that object)

From us in life - but common - which doth lie  Each hour before us - but then only

With a strange sound, as of a harpstring brokenT' awake us - 'Tis a symbol and a token -                      IV.

Of what in other worlds shall be - and given  In beauty by our God, to those

Who otherwise would fall from life and Heaven  Drawn by their heart's passion, and that tone,

That high tone of the spirit which hath striven  Though not with Faith - with godliness - whose

With desperate energy 't hath beaten down;

Wearing its own deep feeling as a crown.

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