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(I) IN IRELAND
A mirror faced a mirror: ire and hate
Opposite ire and hate: the multiplied,
The complex charge rejected, intricate,
From side to sullen side;
One plot, one crime, one treachery, nay, one name,
Assumed, denounced, in echoes of replies.
The doubt, exchanged, lit thousands of one flame / Within those mutual eyes.
(II) IN "OTHELLO"
A mirror faced a mirror: in sweet pain / His dangers with her pity did she track, / Received her pity with his love again, / And these she wafted back.
That masculine passion in her little breast / She bandied with him; her compassion he / Bandied with her. What tender sport! No rest / Had love's infinity.
(III) IN TWO POETS
A mirror faced a mirror: O thy word, / Thou lord of images, did lodge in me, / Locked to my heart, homing from home, a bird, / A carrier, bound for thee.
Thy migratory greatness, greater far / For that return, returns; now grow divine / By endlessness my visiting thoughts, that are / Those visiting thoughts of thine.