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Flesh And Spirit.

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Ben posson gli occhi.     Well may these eyes of mine both near and far             Behold the beams that from thy beauty flow;             But, lady, feet must halt where sight may go:             We see, but cannot climb to clasp a star.     The pure ethereal soul surmounts that bar             Of flesh, and soars to where thy splendours glow,             Free through the eyes; while prisoned here below,             Though fired with fervent love, our bodies are.     Clogged with mortality and wingless, we             Cannot pursue an angel in her flight:             Only to gaze exhausts our utmost might.     Yet, if but heaven like earth incline to thee,             Let my whole body be one eye to see,             That not one part of me may miss thy sight!

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