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Beauty hath two great wings / That lift me to her height, / Though steep her secret dwelling clings / 'Twixt earth and light. / Thither my startled soul she brings / In a murmur and stir of plumes, / And blue air cloven, / And in aerial rooms / Windowed on starry springs / Shows me the singing looms / Whereon her worlds are woven;
Then, in her awful breast, / Those heights descending, / Bears me, a child at rest, / At the day's ending, / Till earth, familiar as a nest, / Again receives me, / And Beauty veiled in night, / Benignly bending, / Drops from the sinking west / One feather of our flight, / And on faint sandals leaves me.