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ALL the pleasant ways of men
She has known and made them hers;
Graceless fancies vanish when
Her voice breaks on me and stirs
Long-unsounded chords that thrill
With sweet music still.
For a moment I was raised
From myself, and spoke and moved
With high poets unamazed,
With old sages unreproved;
Life I felt in its completeness,
All its strength and sweetness.
Now can I, returning, tread
Narrow ways with low desires?
Fancy rises from the dead,
And a new-born shame inspires
A regret that truly measures
Her ignoble pleasures.
Dante! thy "New Life" has shown
Love's eternal miracle;
Can I for my past atone,
That love may be possible?
That pure love of thine, great poet,
Can I learn to know it?
Lady! when serener thought,
And a life, from self set free,
Have with gracious influence wrought
A love-worthy soul in me;
Lady! may some soul like thine
Then awaken mine.
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