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112 Rightly seeing, rightly seen,

Of joyful and transparent mien.

'T is a sparkle passing

From each to each, from thee to me,

To and fro perpetually;

Sharing all, daring all,

Levelling, displacing

Each obstruction, it unites

Equals remote, and seeming opposites.

And ever and forever Love

Delights to build a road:

Unheeded Danger near him strides,

Love laughs, and on a lion rides.

But Cupid wears another face,

Born into Dæmons less divine:

His roses bleach apace,

His nectar smacks of wine.

The Dæmon ever builds a wall,

Himself encloses and includes,

Solitude in solitudes:

In like sort his love doth fall.

He doth elect

The beautiful and fortunate,

And the sons of intellect,

And the souls of ample fate,

Who the Future's gates unbar,—

Minions of the Morning Star.

In his prowess he exults,

And the multitude insults.