ENOSIS
by: Christopher Cranch
(1813-1892)
- HOUGHT is
deeper than all speech,
- Feeling deeper than all thought;
- Souls to souls can never teach
- What unto themselves was taught.
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- We are spirits clad in veils;
- Man by man was never seen;
- All our deep communing fails
- To remove the shadowy screen.
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- Heart to heart was never known;
- Mind with mind did never meet;
- We are columns left alone,
- Of a temple once complete.
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- Like the stars that gem the sky,
- Far apart, though seeming near,
- In our light we scattered lie;
- All is thus but starlight here.
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- What is social company
- But a babbling summer stream?
- What our wise philosophy
- But the glancing of a dream?
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- Only when the sun of love
- Melts the scattered stars of thought;
- Only when we live above
- What the dim-eyed world hath taught;
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- Only when our souls are fed
- By the Fount which gave them birth,
- And by inspiration led,
- Which they never drew from earth,
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- We like parted drops of rain
- Swelling till they meet and run,
- Shall be all absorbed again,
- Melting, flowing into one.
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