Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNET: 22, by GEORGE SANTAYANA


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First Line: Tis love that moveth the celestial spheres
Last Line: In love's eternal orbit keeps the soul.


'T is love that moveth the celestial spheres
In endless yearning for the Changeless One,
And the stars sing together, as they run
To number the innumerable years.
'T is love that lifteth through their dewy tears
The roses' beauty to the heedless sun,
And with no hope, nor any guerdon won,
Love leads me on, nor end of love appears.
For the same breath that did awake the flowers,
Making them happy with a joy unknown,
Kindled my light and fixed my spirits's goal;
And the same hand that reined the flying hours
And chained the whirling earth to Phoebus' throne,
In love's eternal orbit keeps the soul.






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