Plus Intra

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A Century of Roundels by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Plus Intra
This poem is a roundel originally published in the book A Century of Roundels.

I.

Soul within sense, immeasurable, obscure,
Insepulchred and deathless, through the dense
Deep elements may scarce be felt as pure
   Soul within sense.

From depth and height by measurers left immense,
Through sound and shape and colour, comes the unsure
Vague utterance, fitful with supreme suspense.

All that may pass, and all that must endure,
Song speaks not, painting shews not: more intense
And keen than these, art wakes with music's lure
      Soul within sense.

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