Lines [Within The World Of Every Man's Desire]

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Title:     Lines [Within The World Of Every Man's Desire]
Author: Madison Julius Cawein [More Titles by Cawein]

Within the world of every man's desire
Three things have power to lift his soul above,
Through dreams, religion, and ecstatic fire,
The star-like shapes of Beauty, Truth, and Love.

I never hoped that, this side far-off Heaven,
These three,--whom all exalted souls pursue,--
I e'er should see; until to me 't was given,
Lady, to meet the three, made one, in you.

[The end]
Madison Julius Cawein's poem: Lines [Within The World Of Every Man's Desire]

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