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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=359135" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Deliciae Sapientiae de Amore</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love, light for me<br>Thy ruddiest blazing torch,<br>That I, albeit a beggar by the Porch<br>Of the glad Palace of Virginity,<br>May gaze within,k and sing the pomp I see;<br>For, crown'd with roses all,<br>'Tis there, O Love, they keep thy festival!<br>But first warn off the beatific spot<br>Those wretched who have not<br>Even afar beheld the shining wall,<br>And those who, once beholding, have forgot,<br>And those, most vile, who dress<br>The charnel spectre drear<br>Of utterly dishallow'd nothingness<br>In that refulgent fame,<br>And cry, Lo, here!<br>And name<br>The Lady whose smiles inflame<br>The sphere.<br>Bring, Love, anear, And bid be not afraid<br>Young Lover true, and love-foreboding Maid,<br>And wedded Spouse, if virginal of thought;<br>for I will sing of nought<br>Less sweet to hear<br>Than seems<br>A music their half-remember'd dreams.<br>The magnet calls the steel:<br>Answers the iron to the magnet's breath;<br>What do they feel<br>But death!<br>The clouds of summer kiss in flame and rain,<br>And are not found again;<br>But the heavens themselves eternal are with fire<br>Of unapproach'd desire,<br>By the aching heart of Love, which cannot rest,<br>In blissfullest pathos so indeed possess'd.<br>O, spousals high;<br>O, doctrine blest,<br>Unutterable in even the happiest sigh;<br>This know ye all<br>Who can recall<br>With what a welling of indignant tears<br>LOve's simpleness first hears<br>The meaning of his mortal covenant,<br>And from what pride comes down<br>To wear the crown<br>Of which 'twas very heaven to feel the want.<br>How envies he the ways<br>Of yonder hopeless star,<br>And so would laugh and yearn<br>With trembling lids eterne,<br>Ineffably content from infinitely far<br>Only to gaze<br>On his bright Mistress's responding rays,<br>That never know eclipse;<br>And, once in his long year, With praeternuptial ecstasy and fear,<br>By the delicious law of that ellipse<br>Wherein all citizens of ether move,<br>With hastening pace to come<br>Nearer, though never near,<br>His Love<br>And always inaccessible sweet Home;<br>There on his path doubly to burn,<br>Kiss'd by her doubled light<br>That whispers of its source,<br>The ardent secret ever clothed with Night,<br>Then go forth in new force<br>Towards a new return,<br>Rejoicing as a Bridegroom on his course!<br>This know ye all;<br>Therefore gaze bold,<br>That so in you be joyful hope increas'd,<br>Thorough the Palace portals, and behold<br>The dainty and unsating Marriage-Feast.<br>O, hear<br>Them singing clear<br>'Cor meum et caro mea'round the 'I am',<br>The Husband of the Heavens, and the Lamb<br>Whom they for ever follow there that kept,<br>Or, losing, never slept<br>Till they reconquer'd had in mortal fight<br>The standard white.<br>O, hear<br>From the harps they bore from Earth, five-strung, what music springs,<br>While the glad Spirits chide<br>The wondering strings!<br>And how the shining sacrificial Choirs,<br>Offering for aye their dearest hearts' desires,<br>Which to their hearts come back beatified,<br>Hymn, the bright aisles along,<br>The nuptial song,<br>Song ever new to us and them, that saith,<br>'Hail Virgin in Virginity a Spouse!'<br>Heard first below<br>Within the little house<br>At Nazareth;<br>Heard yet in many a cell where brides of Christ<br>Lie hid, emparadised,<br>And where, although<br>By the hour 'tis night,<br>There's light,<br>The Day still lingering in the lap of snow.<br>Gaze and be not afraid<br>Ye wedded few that honour, in sweet thought<br>And glittering will,<br>So freshly from the garden gather still<br>The lily sacrificed;<br>For ye,though self-suspected here for nought,<br>Are highly styled<br>With the thousands twelve times twelve of undefiled.<br>Gaze and be not afraid<br>Young Lover true and love-foreboding Maid.<br>The full Moon of deific vision bright<br>Abashes nor abates<br>No spark minute of Nature's keen delight,<br>'Tis there your Hymen waits!<br>There wher in courts afar, all unconfused, they crowd,<br>As fumes the starlight soft<br>In gulfs of cloud,<br>And each to the other, well-content,<br>Sighs oft,<br>''Twas this we meant!'<br>Gaze without blame<br>Ye in whom living Love yet blushes for dead shame.<br>There of pure Virgins none<br>Is fairer seen,<br>Save One,<br>Than Mary Magdalene.<br>Gaze without doubt or fear<br>Ye to whom generous Love, by any name, is dear.<br>Love makes the life to be<br>A fount perpetual of virginity;<br>For, lo, the Elect<br>Of generous Love, how named soe'er, affect<br>Nothing but God,<br>Or mediate or direct,<br>Nothing but God,<br>The Husband of the Heavens:<br>And who Him love, in potence great or small<br>Are, one and all,<br>Heirs of the Palace glad,<br>And inly clad<br>With the bridal robes of ardour virginal.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Coventry+Patmore">Coventry Patmore</a><div class=q>
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Thy ruddiest blazing torch,
That I, albeit a beggar by the Porch
Of the glad Palace of Virginity,
May gaze within,k and sing the pomp I see;
For, crown'd with roses all,
'Tis there, O Love, they keep thy festival!
But first warn..."></div>
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