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As light leaps up from star to star, so mounts / Faith from one soul unto another; so / The lower to the higher; till the flow / Of knowledge rises from creation's founts;
Until from human love we come to know / The august presence of the Love Divine; / And feel the light unutterable shine / Upon half-lights that we were wont to show,
Absorbing them. 'Tis Love that beckons us / From low desires, from restlessness and sin, / To heights that else we had not reached; and thus
We find the Heaven we dared not hope to win.
How clearer seem designs immortal when / Our lives are fed on Love's fine regimen