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PLUS ULTRA by WILLIAM BRIAN HOOKER

First Line: LOVE, WHILE OUR LOVE WAS YET UNBORN
Last Line: THAT NEVER MAY BE WON.

Love, while our love was yet unborn,
And your lips, doubting you, denied
Gifts that should make you glorified
In revelation won and worn --
Still in your virgin eyes I knew
God's promise of the joy of you
Beyond your anger to subdue,
Your maidenhood to hide.

Now, when your lips have granted all
Glory that may be dreamed or done
Between the courses of the sun,
In nature's deep confessional, --
I see, where wonder underlies
The wisdom of your wifely eyes,
Unmasterable mysteries
That never may be won.



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