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Each vibrating to each, as in the harp
To one touched string according strings respond?
Eternal Love, intent to make earth blest
With all best joys, nor man nor woman made
For unrelated life, but each for each;
Each only in the other without lack
Of somewhat that, unfound, the restless heart
Yearns ever, nor can know a full content.
O subtile instinct! Hidden law deep wrought
Into the soul's own texture, by His will
Who, Love Himself, man in his likeness framed
To dwell in love; his native element,
The vital air, in which to live and move!
God and thy kind both loved with one pure flame,
O mortal, thou most like to God shalt be,
Blessing and blessed; and by thy stony paths
Shall spring such flowers as Paradise did yield
Ere with the reign of love her all she lost.

  Yon mansion long ago, one summer morn,
A morn bright, dewy, fresh with balmy breath