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When thy hand touches mine, through all the mesh          Of intricate and interlaced veins          Shoot swift delights that border on keen pains:     Flesh thrills to thrilling flesh.     When in thine eager eyes I look to find          A comrade to my thought, thy ready brain          Delves down and makes its inmost meaning plain:     Mind answers unto mind.     When hands and eyes are hid by seas that roll          Wide wastes between us, still so near thou art          I count the very pulses of thy heart:     Soul speaketh unto soul.     So every law, or human or divine,     In heart and brain and spirit makes thee mine.

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