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TO THE BOUND CAPTIVE IN THE LOUVRE: 2, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Immortal beauty and immortal pain
Last Line: And how to loose he hath himself forgot.
Subject(s): Brides; Hearts; Immortality; Louvre, Paris; Love; Pain; Passion; Suffering; Misery


Immortal beauty and immortal pain,
Terror and mystery and dream fulfil
This archetypal bondsman.—Strive thou till
Thy swoon is rent, thy Passion is all vain,
And in thy trance thou knowest it is vain.
Oh! let the drug of dreams, then, work its will:
The Bondsman and his bonds must marry still,
The Spirit and the Flesh be one and twain.

See! Interwoven in the fatal knot,
Confounded as a bridegroom with the bride,
The beauty of the soul would rend and flee
The beauty of the body. Ah! let be!
For God Himself the mortal tangle tied,
And how to loose He hath Himself forgot.




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