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II.— FELICITY

Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore

To marry her and take her home! The poet, painting pureness, tells Of lilies; figures power by Rome; And each thing shows by something else.

But through the songs of poets look, And who so lucky to have found In universal nature's book A likeness for a life so crown'd!

Here they speak best who best express Their inability to speak, And none are strong, but who confess With happy skill that they are weak.

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