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High as the eagle builds his lonely nest / Above the sea, above the paths of man, / And makes the elements his barbican, / That none may break the mother-eagle's rest;
So build I far above all human eyes / My nest of love; Heaven's face alone bends down / To give it sunlight, starlight; while is blown / A wind upon it out of Paradise.
None shall affright, no harm may come to her, / Whom I have set there in that lofty home: / Love's eye is sleepless; I could feel the stir
E'en of God's cohorts, if they chanced to come.
I am her shield; I would that I might prove / How dear I hold the lady of my love.
WHEN thou makest a voyage to the stars, go thou blindfolded; / and carry not a sword, but the sandals of thy youth.
-- Egyptian Proverb.
SEEK thou the Angel of the Cross Roads ere thou goest upon a / journey, and she will give thee wisdom at the Four Corners.
-- Egyptian Proverb.