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A face seen passing in a crowded street, / A voice heard singing music, large and free; / And from that moment life is changed, and we / Become of more heroic temper, meet / To freely ask and give, a man complete / Radiant because of faith, we dare to be / What Nature meant us. Brave idolatry / Which can conceive a hero! No deceit, / No knowledge taught by unrelenting years, / Can quench this fierce, untamable desire.
We know that what we long for once achieved / Will cease to satisfy. Be still our fears; / If what we worship fail us, still the fire / Burns on, and it is much to have believed.