[BNP/E3, 49A2 – 18]
4/5/09.
Love, hunger, {…} desiring and the blind
Insatiate but of excellence and power
And the {…} low of our own kind.
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Love and hunger are find {…}
But love of mankind though it finds its power
Shall but find fruit, for evil † doth bind,
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But still beyond all these there are ache
Which has no object but its own despair…
Must this the {…} of nature break?
Is it the only[1] meaningless vice to call
In life, or is it but the {…}
Of the transcendent unity of all.
Over
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Oh great Anthero, poet, thinker, saint!
Spirit, since Shelley died, must far from transit
Of the worlds {…}
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Systems {…} the {…}
And the transcendent unity of ALL.
[1] only /sole\