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Rh "...nor less I trust To them I may have owed another gift Of aspect more sublime:—that blessed mood In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintellgibleunintelligible [sic] world Is lightened:—that serene and blessed mood In which the affections gently lead us on— Until the breath of this corporeal frame And even motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things." The serene and blesedblessed [sic] mood which enables us to see into the life of things: that is imaginative reason, that is the Spirit of the Chinese People.