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Within the world of every man's desire / Three things have power to lift his soul above, / Through dreams, religion, and ecstatic fire, / The star-like shapes of Beauty, Truth, and Love.
I never hoped that, this side far-off Heaven, / These three, -- whom all exalted souls pursue, -- / I e'er should see; until to me 't was given, / Lady, to meet the three, made one, in you.