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Grove of ideals, where the real halts, Where flesh is flame alive, and Psyche floats; The while the satyr makes his old assaults, Loose Philomel her azure drunken throats.

Fantastic pearl and music amorous Adown the green and flowering laurel tops: Hypsipyle stealthily the rose doth buss; And the faun's mouth the tender stalking crops.

There where the god pursues the flying maid, Where springs the reed of Pan from out the mire, The Life eternal hath its furrows laid, And wakens the All-Father's mystic choir.

The soul that enters there disrobed should go A-tremble with desire and longing pure Over the wounding spine and thorn below, So should it dream, be stirred, and sing secure.

Life, Light and Truth, as in a triple flame Produce the inner radiance infinite; Art, pure as Christ, is heartened to exclaim: I am indeed the Life, the Truth, the Light!

The Life is mystery; the Light is blind; The Truth beyond our reach both daunts and fades; The sheer perfection nowhere do we find; The ideal sleeps, a secret, in the shades.

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