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Sweet faces, that from pictured casements lean / As from a castle window, looking down / On some gay pageant passing through a town, / Yourselves the fairest figures in the scene; / With what a gentle grace, with what serene / Unconsciousness ye wear the triple crown / Of youth and beauty and the fair renown / Of a great name, that ne'er hath tarnished been! / From your soft eyes, so innocent and sweet, / Four spirits, sweet and innocent as they, / Gaze on the world below, the sky above; / Hark! there is some one singing in the street; / "Faith, Hope, and Love! these three," he seems to say; / "These three; and greatest of the three is Love. "