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INTENDED AS A REPLY TO, AND A COMMENT ON, THE FOLLOWING LINES .
O H would I not, the pulse of love to waken
E'en in a being by the world rejected,
Stoop to compliances the least connected
With aught could flatter self? Ah, was not this
What of himself, when he himself depicted,
Frankly confessed the paradox-loving Swiss
" To meet a second self is the sublime of bliss? "
Ah, was not this my wish? My hope supreme?
Cannot a being; or in earth, or heaven,
Be met with, — from the stigma of a dream, —
To rescue him, who has with much toil, striven
For such communion? Like a spirit driven
From comprehension by connatural things
I, from the extremest ardour, ever given
To man, for human sympathy, my wings
Now flag, and glad would be to drink lethean springs.
O H would I not, the pulse of love to waken
E'en in a being by the world rejected,
Stoop to compliances the least connected
With aught could flatter self? Ah, was not this
What of himself, when he himself depicted,
Frankly confessed the paradox-loving Swiss
" To meet a second self is the sublime of bliss? "
Ah, was not this my wish? My hope supreme?
Cannot a being; or in earth, or heaven,
Be met with, — from the stigma of a dream, —
To rescue him, who has with much toil, striven
For such communion? Like a spirit driven
From comprehension by connatural things
I, from the extremest ardour, ever given
To man, for human sympathy, my wings
Now flag, and glad would be to drink lethean springs.
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