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A Dream Of Beauty

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I dreamed that each most lovely, perfect thing          That Nature hath, of sound, and form, and hue -          The winds, the grass, the light-concentering dew,         The gleam and swiftness of the sea-bird's wing;         Blueness of sea and sky, and gold of storm             Transmuted by the sunset, and the flame          Of autumn-colored leaves, before me came,         And, meeting, merged to one diviner form.         Incarnate Beauty 'twas, whose spirit thrills         Through glaucous ocean and the greener hills,          And in the cloud-bewildered peaks is pent.             Like some descended star she hovered o'er,          But as I gazed, in doubt and wonderment,             Mine eyes were dazzled, and I saw no more.

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