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single lives are circled round

By an embracing sea;

Are joined to all that has been, bound

To all that is to be:

The past and future meet and cross,

And in life's ocean is no loss.

The music of the summer dawn,

The silence of the midnight sky,

The stars, in azure deeps withdrawn,

Reveal a single mystery:

And blent with these, the whisperings

Of spirit find each shy retreat,