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I Shall Make Beauty

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I shall make beauty out of many things:         Lights, colours, motions, sky and earth and sea,         The soft unbosoming of all the springs         Which that inscrutable hand allows to me,         Odours of flowers, sounds of smitten strings,         The voice of many a wind in many a tree,         Fields, rivers, moors, swift feet and floating wings,         Rocks, caves, and hills that stand and clouds that flee.         Men also and women, beautiful and dear,         Shall come and pass and leave a fragrant breath;         And my own heart, laughter and pain and fear,         The majesties of evil and of death;         But never, never shall my verses trace         The loveliness of your most lovely face.

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