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us unaware the solemn night
 * Had hung its shadowy mantle, while we sought
 * To find each other by the roads of thought;

I felt thy orbit nearing, and a light Streamed suddenly across my inner sight,
 * Effulgent, incommunicable, fraught
 * With some constraining tenderness that caught

My quickened spirit to its utmost height.

And lo! I saw as with the eyes of two,
 * In that swift moment when thy soul touched mine,

The walls of being widened, and I drew
 * Near to the portal of a nameless shrine,

A sudden blinding rapture pierced me through,
 * And in that instant earth became divine.