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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=559473" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Introit : V. Litany Of Beauty</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Joy, if the Soul or aught immortal be, <br>How may this Beauty know mortality?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Beauty, perfect child of Light,<br>Sempiternal spirit of delight!<br>White and set with gold like the gold of the night,<br>The gold of the stars in quiet weather,--<br>White and shapely and pure!--<br>O lily-flower from stain secure,<br>With life and virginity dying together!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One lily liveth so,<br>Liveth for ever unstained, immortal, a mystic flower:<br>Perfectly wrought its frame,<br>Gold inwrought and eternal white,<br>White more white than cold of the snow,<br>For never, never, near it came,<br>Never shall come till the end of all,<br>Hurtful thing in wind or shower,<br>Worm or stain or blight;<br>But ever, ever, gently fall<br>The dews elysian of years that flow<br>Where it doth live secure<br>In flawless comeliness mature,<br>Golden and white and pure.<br>In the fair far-shining glow<br>Of eternal and holy Light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beauty of earthly things<br>Wrought by God and with hands of men!<br>Beauty of Nature and Art,<br>Fashioned anew for each Time brings,<br>For each new soul and living heart!<br>Beauty of Beauty that fills the ken<br>Till the soul is swooning, faint with delight!<br>Beauty of human form and voice,<br>Of eyes and ears and lips!--<br>O golden hair and brow of white!--<br>Wine of Beauty that whoso sips<br>Doth die to a spirit free, and rejoice,<br>Living with God and living with men, <br>Rapt rejoice in eternal bliss,<br>Raising his face to meet the kiss<br>Of the Beauty seraphic he sees above<br>In figure of his love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Beauty of Wisdom unsought<br>That in trance to poet is taught,<br>Uttered in secret lay,<br>Singing the heart from earth away,<br>Cunning the soul from care to lure,--<br>O mystic lily, from stain and death secure,<br>Till the end of all to stay!<br>O shapely flower that must for ever endure!<br>O voice of God that every heart must hear!<br>O hymn of purest souls that dost unsphere<br>The ravished soul that hears! O white, white gem!<br>O rose that dost the senses drown in bliss!<br>No thought shall stay the wing, or stem<br>The song or win the heart to miss<br>Thy love, thy joy, thy rapture divine!<br>O Beauty, Beauty, ever thine<br>The soul, the heart, the brain,<br>To own three in a loud perpetual strain,<br>Shriller and sweeter than song of wine,<br>Than song of sorrow or love or war!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beauty of heaven and sun and day,<br>Beauty of water and frost and star,<br>Beauty of dusk-tide, narrowing, grey!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beauty of silver light,<br>Beauty of purple night,<br>Beauty of solemn breath,<br>Beauty of closèd eye, and sleep, and death!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beauty of dawn and dew,<br>Beauty of morning peace,<br>Ever ancient and ever new,<br>Ever renewed till waking cease<br>Or sleep for ever, when loud the angel's word<br>Through all the world is heard!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beauty of brute and bird,<br>Beauty of earthly creatures<br>Whose hearts by the hand of God are stirred!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beauty of the soul,<br>Beauty informing forms and features,<br>Fairest to God's eye,--<br>Beauty that cannot fade or die<br>Though atoms to ruin roll!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beauty of blinded Trust,<br>Led by the hand of God<br>To a heaven where Cherub hath never trod!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Austere Beauty of Truth<br>Lighting the way of the just!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Splendid Beauty of Youth<br>Staying when Youth is sped,<br>Living when Life is dead,<br>Burning in funeral dust!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The glory of form doth pale and pall,<br>Beauty endures to the end of all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+MacDonagh">Thomas MacDonagh</a><div class=q>
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O Beauty, perfect child of Light,
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White and set with gold like the gold of the night,
The gold of the stars in quiet weather,--
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