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 144 his mind when he was in the South, golden region, where his imaginations rejoiced, his sons of Eternity sang ?

7. When his desires sported among eternal and mental mountains and valleys ?

8. When his bosom was open, not closed in flesh and bone.

9. When her soul was given to his sons, and his daughters to her chambers ; where indulgences and energies could live in harmony and love ?

10. And little innocent joys were born from them like innumerable babes ?

11. And even the external and female things of the void and of the flesh were happy as fatness, and odours and figs ?

12. Eternal science, which in the golden age was mercy, and the architecture of the happy heart, was sown as a seed with generous hand.

13. And the sweat was the symbol of healthy labour.

14. But dark flesh and dark jealousy and dark restraint have ended all the joy.

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