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REPLY by AMORY HARE

First Line: BEAUTY, I SEEK YOUR IMAGE IN MY HEART
Last Line: AND, SOMEWHERE IN THE WOOD, A THRUSH REPLIED.
Subject(s): BEAUTY; SOUL; VISION;

Beauty, I seek your image in my heart
Along uncharted reaches of my soul;
Alone, yet multiple,
Behind me, yet before,
Beneath, within where least I thought you straying,
Give me one broken vision of the Whole --
One bar of that strange music you are playing!
Thus to all Beauty I my longing cried, at morn.
One drop of dew fell mutely from the thorn,
And, somewhere in the wood, a thrush replied.



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