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Edwin Muir - The Angel and the GirlEdwin Muir - The Angel and the Girl
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The angel and the girl are met Earth was the only meeting place. For the embodied never yet Travelled beyond the shore of space. The eternal spirits in freedom go. See, they have come together, see, While the destroying minutes flow, Each reflects the other`s face Till heaven in hers and earth in his Shine steady there. He`s come to her From far beyond the farthest star, Feathered through time. Immediacy Of strangest strangeness is the bliss That from their limbs all movement takes. Yet the increasing rapture brings So great a wonder that it makess Each feather tremble on his wings Outside the window footsteps fall Into the ordinary day And with the sun along the wall Pursue their unreturning way Sound`s perpetual roundabout Rolls its numbered octaves out And hoarsely grinds its battered tune But through the endless afternoon These neither speak nor movement make. But stare into their deepening trance As if their grace would never break.
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