Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
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Not with dreams, but with blood and with iron, Shall a nation be moulded at last.Algernon Charles Swinburne
But from sharp words and wits men pluck no fruit And gathering thorns they shake the tree at root For words divide and rend, But silence is most noble till the end.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
And lo, between the sundawn and the sun His days work and his nights work are undone And lo, between the nightfall and the light, He is not, and none knoweth of such an one.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
All gifts but one the jealous God may keep From our soul's longing, one he cannot - sleep. This, though he grudge all other grace to prayer, This grace his closed hand cannot choose but spare.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Shall I strew on thee rose or rue or laurel, Brother, on this that was the veil of thee Or quiet sea-flower moulded by the sea, Or simplest growth of meadow-sweet or sorrel.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
I am that which began; Out of me the years roll; Out of me God and man; I am equal and whole; God changes, and man, and the form of them bodily I am the soul.
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