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Experience

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Three memories hold us ever     With longing and with pain;     Three memories Time has never     Been able to restrain;     That in each life remain     A part of heart and brain.     The first 's of that which taught us     To follow, Beauty still;     Who to the Fountain brought us     Of ancient good and ill,     And bade us drink our fill     At Life's wild-running rill.     The second one, that 's driven     Of anguish and delight,     Holds that which showed us Heaven,     Through Love's triumphant might;     And, deep beneath its height,     Hell, sighing in the night.     The third none follows after:     Its form is veiled and dim;     Its eyes are tears and laughter,     That look beyond the rim     Of earth and point to Him,     Who rules the Seraphim.

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