The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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Our noon became a well
A Thunder storm combines the charms
Of Winter and of Hell.
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How much can come
And much can go,
And yet abide the world!
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Eternity will be
Velocity or Pause
At Fundamental Signals
From Fundamental Laws.
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By Contrast certifying
The Bird of Birds is gone --
How nullified the Meadow --
Her Sorcerer withdrawn!
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