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, could we know with disencumbered eyes

The spirit's consubstantiality

That only maketh men truly to be

Mankind, and to the angels them allies,

Seeing how love their being magnifies

And oi those pure affections makes them free,

Whose rosy region is eternity,—

What heavenly argosies would crowd our skies!

We should encounter, then, on every gale

Mighty emotions that our breasts now pen;

Ethereal fleets forever setting sail,

Visions of youth, we should behold again;

And shining on the world's horizon hail

The congregation of the hopes of men.