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O gifts divine as any ever knew / The noble spirits of an antique time; / As any poets fashion in their rhyme, / Or angels whisper down the shadeless blue!
The priceless gifts of holy confidence, / That speak through quivering lips from heart to heart; / That unto life new energies impart, / And open up the gates of prescience.
O dear my love, I unto thee have given / Pledge that I am thy vassal evermore; / I stand within the zenith of my Heaven,
On either hand a starred eternal shore / I have come nearer to thy greater worth, / For thou hast raised me from the common earth.