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A Botticelli Madonna I The Wondering Angels

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Behold! the Tabernacle of God's Will         This woman's form enshrineth.    What is this,         More glorious than all our age-long bliss,         Which shines within the shadow of her sill?         How shall we lift this strangeness which doth fill         Her human heart to breaking,--we who miss         In our immortal joy, the enlight'ning kiss         Of sorrow's bitter lips whence comforts thrill?         How shall we sing to her of joys to come,         To her who bears upon her breast the sum         Of death's dread gloom and heaven's undying light?         Lean close, ah, close, about her from above,--         Behold upon the mildness of her love         Enthroned the terrors of His Holy Might!

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