Sydney Thompson Dobell

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Love And Beauty: III: To A Fair Woman, Unsatisfied With Woman's Work

If Beauty is a name for visible Love, And Love for Beauty in the conscious soul, Which when commoving to its highest whole, Or making that whole part of wholes above Itself, feels, like an eye, that it doth move, But cannot see the motion visible To others and in others; if the sole Difference is ours who see the spirit a dove, Or feel the dove a spirit; and if in All worlds Love, Love, as song and text allege, Sums the full good of life, who shall not bow To Beauty? Thou, born in her shrine, if thou Shouldst dare profane her, what would be thy sin? The sacrilegious priest does more than sacrilege.