<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=359193" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Three Witnesses</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Musing I met, in no strange land,<br>What meet thou must to understand:<br>An Angel. There was none but he,<br>Yet 'twas a glorious company.<br>God, Youth, and Goddess, one, twain, trine,<br>In altering wedlock flamed benign.<br>The Youth i' the midst did shadowy seem,<br>Till merged in either blest extreme,<br>But could, by choosing, each way turn,<br>And, with God, for the Goddess burn,<br>Or vanish in the Goddess quite,<br>To be, with her, the God's delight;<br>And, whether he chose Hers or His,<br>He glow'd at once with either's bliss.<br>The head was Godhead without guile,<br>A solar force, an infant's smile;<br>Breasted the Wonder was and loin'd<br>With Man and Woman's beauties join'd;<br>And thence, O, moonlike and most sweet,<br>The Goddess brighten'd to the feet,<br>Which, when they felt the one the other,<br>Felt each like Cupid and his Mother. <br>Unwearying, since I caught that sight,<br>Him have I praised by whose word's might<br>The Heavens and the Earth did breathe<br>And the gay Waters underneath.</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> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=359193" data-title="The Three Witnesses de Coventry Patmore" data-description="Musing I met, in no strange land, What meet thou must to understand: An Angel. There was none but he, Yet 'twas a glorious company. God, Youth, and Goddess, one, twain, trine, In altering wedlock flamed benign. The Youth i' the midst did shadowy s..."></div> </div> </div>

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