Sonnets From The Portuguese XXVI
I lived with visions for my company Instead of men and women, years ago, And found them gentle mates, nor thought to know A sweeter music than they played to me. But soon their trailing purple was not free Of this worlds dust, their lutes did silent grow, And I myself grew faint and blind below Their vanishing eyes. Then thou didst come, to be, Belovd, what they seemed. Their shining fronts, Their songs, their splendours, (better, yet the same, As river-water hallowed into fonts) Met in thee, and from out thee overcame My soul with satisfaction of all wants: Because Gods gifts put mans best dreams to shame.
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"I lived with visions for my company..."
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