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164 So lovers melt their sundered selves,

Yet melted would be twain.

II.

THE DÆMONIC AND THE CELESTIAL LOVE.

was made of social earth,

Child and brother from his birth,

Tethered by a liquid cord

Of blood through veins of kindred poured.

Next his heart the fireside band

Of mother, father, sister, stand:

These, like strong amulets preferred,

Throbs of a wild religion stirred;—

Virtue, to love, to hate them, vice;

Till dangerous Beauty came, at last,

Till Beauty came to snap all ties;

The maid, abolishing the past,